French Cathedrals & Churches

Mont-St-Michel - Murbach

Photography of French Cathedrals and Churches by Peter Mathews and Eric Jump.
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Mont-St-Michel, Abbey

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Romanesque abbey church on summit

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Mont St-Michel from the south

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Cloister (1203-28) & garden

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Nave looking east, south side (1060-84), north side (rebuilt 12th c.)

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South nave aisle capitals (1060-84), looking west

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Archangel Michael (15th c.) in northeast transept

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South ambulatory vault (1446-1521)

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Choir (1446-1521), end of the Mass

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Salle des Hôtes vault (1213)

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Salle des Chevaliers (1220)

Montauban Cathedral

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Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, west front (1692-1739)

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Nave looking east (early 18th c.)

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Organ (1675)

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Organ (1675) (detail)

Montfort-l'Amaury, St-Pierre

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West front tower portal (1613); Romanesque bell-tower (11th c.)

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Nave looking east (15th-16th c.)

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North ambulatory vault (16th c.)

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Window #1, Resurrection of Lazarus (1578), south nave

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Window #8, Nativity from Childhood of Christ (16th c.), south nave (detail)

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Window #13, Charlemagne & St-Louis (16th c.), east end

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Window #16, Raining of the Manna (16th c.), east end

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Window #21, Calvary (16th c.), north nave

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Window #22, Deliverance of St-Pierre, middle panels (16th c.), north nave

Montmorillon, Église Notre-Dame

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Romanesque east end & bridge over Gartempe

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St. Catherine of Alexandria chapel in crypt, murals (late 12th c.)

Montrésor, Collégiale
St-Jean-Baptiste

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West front (1519-41)

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Three apostles, west window (16th c.) (detail)

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North choir stalls (16th c.)

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'Passion' center choir window (16th c.)

Morienval, Notre-Dame

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Notre-Dame (late 11th-early 12th c.) from northeast

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West front (11th c.)

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West front base of belfry porch (11th c.) with Renaissance doorway

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West front tower (12th c.) (detail)

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Northwest nave exterior (late 11th c.)

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Nave looking east (late 11th c.); vault (rebuilt 17th c.)

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North nave aisle with groin vault (late 11th c.), looking west

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'Lions' capital (2nd half 11th c.), north nave

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South nave elevation looking west (late 11th c.)

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West end (late 11th c.) attached to belfry-porch (17th c.)

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Gisant of Florent de Hangest (end of 12th-beginning of 13th c.), northwest transept

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Treasury in north transept

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Choir (c. 1130-35)

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North choir capital of geometrical designs implying a face (c. 1110-30)

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Northeast choir capitals (c. 1110-30)

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East end choir capitals (c. 1110-30)

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East end choir capitals (c. 1110-30) (detail)

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Southeast choir capitals (c. 1110-30)

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South choir capital of geometrical designs (c. 1110-30)

Moustiers-Ste-Marie

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Lombard bell-tower (12th c.)

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High altar (4th c.), Red Sea crossing

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Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Beauvoir (late 12th c.) & suspended star

Moûtiers-Tarentaise Cathedral

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West front (15th & 17th c.)

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Nave looking east (15th c., restored 1826-29)

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Carved wooden cathedra (16th c.), north choir

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Virgin & Child (19th c.), chevet center window

Mulhouse, Ste-Geneviève

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Organ & St. Cecilia rose window

Murbach, Abbey

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Abbey (12th c.) from northwest

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'Portail des lions' (12th c.), south transept portal tympanum

Mont-St-Vincent

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West porch portal & tympanum (late 11th c.)

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Northeast exterior (late 11th c.); choir (restored 18th c.)

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Nave with transverse barrel vault (late 11th c.) looking west

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Choir (late 11th c.)

Montagne, St-Georges

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Cemetery & exterior from southwest (11th c.)

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South portal (end of 11th-early 12th c.)

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Northeast exterior (11th-12th c.)

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Choir with oven vault (reconstructed early 12th c.)

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Men with belts (designating homosexuality) grabbing a tau stick (12th c.), 6th north chevet capital

Montceaux-l'Étoile, St-Pierre-et-St-Paul

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Southwest exterior (12th c.)

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West front portal tympanum (2nd half 12th c.)

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Apse (rebuilt 1777); decorated (1854)

Montferrand, Notre-Dame

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Flamboyant west rose exterior (1517)

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'Tree of Jesse,' Flamboyant west rose (1517), glass (Thévenot, 1858)

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Nave looking east (1304-1566)

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Choir (begun 1304); clerestory windows (Thévenot, 1853-71)

Montivilliers, St-Sauveur

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Romanesque lantern tower (11th c.) with spire

Montluçon, Notre-Dame

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West front door

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South exterior (1622 with 11th c. origins)

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Tower from southeast

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Nave looking east (15th c.)

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'Education of the Virgin by Ste-Anne between Saints'

Montpellier Cathedral

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Cathédrale St-Pierre (14th c.), west front from southwest

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South transept rose exterior (1870-72)

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Chevet & northeast transept exterior (rebuilt 1855-75)

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Nave looking east (14th c., restored 1620s)

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Organ (Lépine, 1778)

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North transept rose (19th c.)

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Northeast transept clerestory (19th c.)

Moulineaux, St-Jacques

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West front & south exterior (1st half 13th c.)

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Jubé (1550) & Angevin vault (1st half 13th c.)

Moulins Cathedral

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West front rose, towers & spires (1860-88)

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View from northwest

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South nave exterior (1852-76)

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Flamboyant south choir exterior (1468-1507)

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Neo-Gothic nave (1852-76) looking northeast to Flamboyant Gothic choir (1468-1507)

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Neo-Gothic nave looking west (1852-76) from choir (1468-1507)

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Ste-Catherine dit des Ducs, 1st east window (end of 15th c.)

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Tree of Jesse, 4th east window, lower panels (end of 15th c.)

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Des Croisades window, lower panels (1558), 3rd south ambulatory Chapelle du St-Curé d'Ars

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La Vierge Noire (12th c.), Chapelle de la Vierge Noire

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Flamboyant south ambulatory vault (1468-1507)

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Choir (1468-1507)

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Choir east end windows; center window (late 15th c.); side windows (1887-88)

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Choir east end center window, 'La Dormition de la Vierge' (late 15th c.. restored 19th c.)

Moulins, Sacré-Coeur

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Neo-Gothic façade with towers (Lassus, 1854-60)

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Nave looking east (Lassus, 1844-81)

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Cinque-foils between north nave chapels (Lassus, 1844-81)

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Pulpit in south nave (19th c.)

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South transept rose (Lassus, 19th c.)

Mozac, Église Abbatiale St-Pierre

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'Four Angels of Revelation closing mouths,' Romanesque capital (12th c.), in chancel

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'Soldiers sleeping at Christ's tomb,' Romanesque capital, nave south side

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'Story of Jonah,' on south aisle column

Mulhouse, Temple St-Étienne

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West front (1866)

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Windows (c. 1330), north side

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