French Cathedrals & Churches

Limoges - Lyon

Photography of French Cathedrals and Churches by Peter Mathews and Eric Jump.
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Limoges Cathedral

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West front tower with Romanesque base & Gothic top four storeys

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Cathédrale St-Étienne (13th-19th c.), from south

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South transept (late 14th c.) from Bishop's Garden

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South chevet (1273-1327)

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North transept exterior (1517-30)

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Nave looking east, 2 eastern bays (1485-99); choir (1273-1327)

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Nave looking west

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West rose window (19th c.) behind organ

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Renaissance rood screen (1535) under organ-loft

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Baptistry (1876-88), 1st south nave aisle chapel

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West end of north nave aisle with circular staircase to organ

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South transept rose (late 14th c.)

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North transept, rose window (1517-30)

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North transept, lower windows (1517-30)

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Tree of Jesse (1854), 1st north ambulatory chapel

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Angel musician (14th c.), 3rd north ambulatory chapel

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Chapelle des Saints-Evêques de Limoges (Steinheil, 1873-77), 4th north ambulatory chapel

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Choir (1273-1327)

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Chevet clerestory (15th c.)

Lisieux, St-Jacques

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South exterior (15th c.)

Lisieux, Basilique Ste-Thérèse

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Basilica exterior from northwest (Cordonnier, 1929-54)

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Dome over crossing (1929-54)

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Choir interior (1929-54), mosaics (Pierre Gaudin, 20th c.)

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Mosaic decoration in southeast crypt chapel (Pierre Gaudin, 20th c.)

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Mosaic decoration in northeast crypt chapel (Pierre Gaudin, 20th c.)

Lodève Cathedral

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North side, exterior

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North nave clerestory, 1st bay

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Organ buffet (1753)

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Chevet windows

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'Lutrin' in chancel

Lourdes, Sanctuaries

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Sanctuaries, Lourdes

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Sanctuaries, Lourdes

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Sanctuaries, Lourdes

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Sanctuaries, Lourdes

Luçon Cathedral

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West front (1675-1702)

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Choir vault (15th c.), looking east

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East end chancel window, left side (15th c.)

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Richelieu's pulpit (early 17th c.)

Luz-St-Sauveur,
Église de St-André

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East end & battlements (14th c.) from northeast

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Tympanum of north portal (12th c.)

Lyon, St-Martin-d'Ainay

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Nave looking east (consecrated 1107)

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Frescoes in central apse (Flandrin, 1855) (closeup)

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South choir capital, 'Adam & Eve with the serpent' (12th c.)

Lyon, Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Fourvière

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Basilica N.-D.-de-Fourvière (Bossan, 1872-96), east end

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West front (Pierre Bossan, 1872-84)

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Nave looking east (Pierre Bossan, 1872-84)

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1st north nave window (Georges Décôte)

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1st south nave window (Georges Décôte)

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'The First Christians in Lyon' (Charles Lemeire, 1910), 1st south nave mosaic

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'Joan of Arc in Orléans' (Charles Lemeire, 1909 & Georges Décôte, 1917), 2nd south nave mosaic

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'Lepanto and Our Lady of the Rosary' (Charles Lemeire, 1832-1910), 2nd north nave mosaic

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North aisle mosaic floor design (19th c.)

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Choir vault (1872-84)

Limoges, St-Michel-des-Lions

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West end left window

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West end center window

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East end left 'John' window (15th c.)

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East end right 'Mary' window (15th c.)

Limoges, St-Pierre-du-Queyroix

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Jesus Teaching in a Boat (19th c.), east end

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Jesus Teaching in a Boat (detail)

Limoux

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St-Martin, east end (12th-16th c.) from old bridge (15th c.)

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West front tower (14th c.)

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West front rose (14th-15th c.)

Lisieux Cathedral

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Cathedral (12th-13th c.) from southwest

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West front north portal (13th c.)

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South transept Portail du Paradis (12th c.) & buttresses (added 15th c.)

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Choir (13th c.) from southeast

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Exterior from northeast (12th-13th c.)

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South tower (16th c.) with spire (1579) & north tower (13th c., unfinished) from northwest

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Nave looking east (12th c.)

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2nd north nave Chapelle Ste-Germaine (Gsell, 1877)

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'St-Pierre crucifié' window (1st half 13th c., restored), northwest transept

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South ambulatory (c. 1225) & north choir (13th c.)

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Axial Lady Chapel (Cauchon, 15th c.)

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1st north window in Lady Chapel

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Choir (13th c.)

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High altar (1888) & angels (1st half 18th c.) in choir

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Angel on right (1st half 18th c.) in choir

Loches, Collégiale St-Ours

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North exterior with pyramidal vaults over nave (c. 1165); base of west tower on right (late 10th c.)

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Inner porch tympanum (c. 1150-60)

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North choir barrel vault (c. 1135-45)

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Tomb of Agnès Sorel (1422-50)

Lombez Cathedral

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Five-tiered octagonal belfry (c. 1346), from west

Lonzac

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Renaissance Ste-Marie or Notre-Dame (1520-30)

Louviers, Notre-Dame

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West front portal (14th c.); north tower (unfinished, begun 1411); & Flamboyant southwest front (15th-16th c.)

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Flamboyant south exterior (15th-16th c.)

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Flamboyant south Renaissance porch (1528)

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Flat east end (early 13th c.)

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Nave looking east (13th c.)

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3rd south nave aisle window (15th-16th c.)

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North nave aisle capital (13th c.)

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Entombment (late 15th c.), end of northwest nave

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Star vault in crossing tower (c. 1500)

Lyon Cathedral

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East end chevet (12th c.)

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Cathedral from southwest at sunset

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West front (1308-1481)

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West front rose window (1392-94), earliest surviving Flamboyant rose

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Human gargoyle on east end (12th c.)

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North transept rose exterior (13th c.)

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Nave looking east (c. 1175-1254)

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West end rose (Henri de Nivelle, 1394) (closeup)

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Chapelle des Bourbons, Flamboyant pendant vault (late 15th c.)

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Chapelle des Bourbons, helicoidal spiral rose at west end (late 15th c.)

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South transept (13th c.)

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Astronomical clock (14th c.), northeast transept

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Choir (c. 1175-1254)

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Southeast choir Chapel of the Cross, east windows (Grubert, 1973)

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Lady Chapel window (12th c., oldest in cathedral), northeast choir

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Upper choir windows (2nd half 13th c.)

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