Amiens Cathedral
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Rib vault
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| Function / usage: |
Cathedral
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| Built: | 1220 - 1269 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Amiens, Somme (80), Picardie, France, Europe |
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| Coordinates: | 49° 53' 41.00" N 2° 18' 7.00" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| building area | 7 700 m2 | |
| interior length | 133.50 m | |
| exterior length | 145 m | |
| height from ground to tip of spire | 112.7 m | |
| chevet | width of a side aisle | 7.30 m |
| nave | width of nave | 12.15 m |
| width of nave (on-centre distance of pillars) | 14.60 m | |
| height of nave vaulting | 42.30 m | |
| width of aisles | 6.07 m | |
| transept | interior length | 62 m |
| width of transept | 29.30 m | |
| exterior length | 70 m |
Materials
| arches |
stone
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| columns |
stone
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| walls |
stone
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| vault |
masonry
|
Chronology
| 1218 | The old cathedral is destroyed in a fire. |
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| ca. 1230 | Nave and western section of the transept are completed. |
| 1250 |
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| 1288 | Maze by Renaud de Cormont. |
| 1366 | Construction of the towers begins. They are finished in the 15th century. |
Relevant Web Sites
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Amiens Cathedral (Mary Ann Sullivan)
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Amiens Cathedral Project
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archINFORM: Amiens Cathedral
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L'architecture religieuse en Occident: Notre-Dame d'Amiens (Somme)
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La Picardie, Terre des Cathédrales: Amiens
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Mary Ann Sullivan: Architectural Sculpture, West Front, Amiens Cathedral
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Notre-Dame d'Amiens
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Sacred Destinations: Amiens Cathedral
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UNESCO: Sites du Patrimoine Mondial: Cathédrale d'Amiens
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Wikipedia: Amiens Cathedral
Relevant Publications
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse (Tome V-A), Robert Laffont, Paris (France), 1969; pp. 6-10
- Rencontres internationales sur la polychromie des portails gothiques, Editions Picard, Paris (France), ISBN 2708406280, 2002
- Les plus belles cathédrales de France, Sélection du Readers Digest, Paris (France), ISBN 2709808889, 1997; pp. 184-191
- Histoire visuelle des Monuments de France, Larousse, Paris (France), ISBN 2035052017, 2003; pp. 106-109
- Amiens. La cathédrale peinte, Perrin, Paris (France), ISBN 2262015759, 2000
- Du Gothique à la Renaissance, Publications de l'Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France), ISBN 2853995380, 2003
- Türme aller Zeiten - aller Kulturen (3rd edition), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany), ISBN 3421029318, 1997; pp. 142
- L'architecture gothique en France 1130-1270, Flammarion, Paris (France), ISBN 2080109707, 1990
- High Gothic Structure, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton (USA), ISBN 0943012058, 1984; pp. 26-31
- Experiments in Gothic Structure, The MIT Press, Cambridge (USA), ISBN 0262630958, 1982; pp. 50-57
- Notre-Dame, Cathedral of Amiens, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (United Kingdom), 1996
- Amiens. La cathédrale Notre-Dame, Monum, éditions du Patrimoine, Paris (France), ISBN 2858227233, 2003
- Amiens. La cathédrale, Editions Zodiaque, Saint-Léger-Vauban (France), ISBN 2736903099, 2004
- Art & Architecture in Medieval France, Icon Editions (Harper & Row Publishers), New York (USA), ISBN 0064300226, 1972; pp. 210-221
- Nord gothique, Picard éditeur, Paris (France), ISBN 2708407384, 2006; pp. 151-174
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000274 |
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| Created: | 21/05/1999 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |