French Cathedrals & Churches

Lalande-de-Fronsac - Lille

Photography of French Cathedrals and Churches by Peter Mathews and Eric Jump.
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Lalande-de-Fronsac, St-Pierre

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South exterior with portal (12th c.)

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South nave portal 'Apocalypse' tympanum (1120-30)

Laon Cathedral

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View of Laon Cathedral from west

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West front (1185-1200)

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West front gallery & towers (1190-95)

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Oxen on southwest tower (early 13th c.)

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West front rose exterior (c. 1200)

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Center portal, right jamb statues (c. 1200)

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Flat east end (1205-20)

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North transept rose exterior (after 1180)

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North nave exterior (1170-1200) & flying buttresses (early 13th c.)

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West towers (early 13th c.) from northeast

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Nave looking east (1170-1200)

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Pulpit (1681) in north nave aisle

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Crossing lantern tower vault (1170-85)

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West end rose (c. 1200), Last Judgment

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South ambulatory Renaissance chapel screens (1570s)

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North transept 'Liberal Arts' window (after 1180), upper panels

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Wrought iron choir screen (18th c.) from Abbey of Villeneuve St-Germain

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East end rose (c. 1200), Apocalypse

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East end rose (c. 1200), Apocalypse, upper panels

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East end 'Nativity' window (c. 1220), Announcement to the Shepherds & Adoration of the Magi (detail)

Lectoure Cathedral

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West front (15th c.)

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Nave looking east (1487-95)

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South nave elevation (1487-95)

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Ste-Anne window (mid-19th c.), 2nd south ambulatory chapel

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Choir (c. 1540)

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East end choir 'Prophets' window (19th c.)

Lesparre-Médoc, St-Trélody

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South exterior (Hosteing, 1854)

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North nave exterior (Hosteing, 1854)

Levroux, Collégiale St-Sylvain

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West façade (13th c.); lateral chapels (end of 16th-17th c.); southeast tower (13th c.)

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West front portal mutilated 'Last Judgment' tympanum (13th c.)

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Nave looking east (13th c.)

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Sexpartite vault (13th c.)

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Organ (1502) at west end

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Choir (13th c.) & apse (12th c.) with Gothic hemicycle (13th c.)

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Apse (12th c.); Gothic hemicycle (13th c.); windows (19th c.)

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Gothic hemicycle with keystone of 'Christ in Majesty' (13th c.)

Lille, Église St-Maurice

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West tower from southeast

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East end (14th-15th c.)

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Nave, looking east

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West end & organ

Langres Cathedral

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West front with towers

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Tiled roof of nave & transepts

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South transept roof (detail), from southeast

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Nave (1150-95), looking east

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Northeast transept pier & north choir

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Joan of Arc (Joseph Navone Genes, 1911)

Laon, Abbaye St-Martin

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Abbaye St-Martin (12th-14th c.) from west

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South nave & transept exterior with towers (13th c.)

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Nave looking east (12th-13th c.)

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Renaissance screen (1540) from inside Chapelle St-Eloi

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West window (13th-14th c. with modern glass) above organ

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Wood paneling south of high altar (17th c.) (detail)

Laval Cathedral

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North transept vault (16th c.)

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'Judith & Holophernes' Aubusson tapestry

Lavaudieu Abbey

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Abbey church, north exterior (11th c.)

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Cloisters (11th c.)

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Cloister columns and capitals (11th c.)

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'Christ surrounded by symbols of the Four Evangelists,' refectory mural (12th c.)

Lavaur Cathedral

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Approaching west front from Bishop's Garden

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Octagonal west tower (late 15th c.) from south

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Nave (13th-14th c.), looking east

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Flamboyant vault, 3rd south nave chapel

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Organ buffet (1523) & vault at west end

Lescar Cathedral

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East end window (12th c.)

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Organ (18th c.), at west end

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Mosaic of hunting scene in choir (12th c.)

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'Flight into Egypt,' Romanesque capital (12th c.)

Lescure, Église St-Michel

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Approaching Église St-Michel (11th-12th c.) from northwest

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Tympanum above Romanesque west portal (12th c.)

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Interior (12th c.) looking northwest

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Capital, 'Meeting of Jacob and Esau' (12th c.)

Lieu-Restauré, Abbey

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West front (12th c.) with Flamboyant rose window (1540)

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West front Flamboyant rose window (1540)

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East end ruins (12th c.)

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Nave looking east (c. 1131)

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South nave & transept in ruins (c. 1131)

Lille Cathedral

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South transept tympanum (1934)

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Chevet, north side, with roof & angel

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Nave (1854-1999), looking east

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North window of northeast transept aisle

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