French Cathedrals & Churches

Cognac - Cunault

Photography of French Cathedrals and Churches by Peter Mathews and Eric Jump.
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Cognac, St-Léger

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Clocher (1st two levels, c. 1130)

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West façade (c. 1130); Flamboyant rose window (15th c.)

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West portal archivolt (c. 1130)

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West rose window (15th c., modern glass)

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North choir stone screen (13th c.)

Condom Cathedral

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West front (1505-31)

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West front portal tympanum (16th c.)

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South nave exterior (1505-31)

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East end chevet (c. 1400) & Lady Chapel (14th c.)

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Lierne vault & south nave clerestory (early 16th c.)

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2nd north nave clerestory grisaille window (early 16th c.)

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Pulpit, late Gothic or early Renaissance (early 16th c.)

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Organ (1838-52) & west end lierne vault (early 16th c.)

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Choir (early 16th c.) & choir screen (1844)

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'Crucifixion' (1860), center choir window

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Lierne vault in chevet (early 16th c.)

Corbeil-Essonnes Cathedral

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West tower (13th-14th c.)

Corbigny, St-Seine

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St-Louis & Joan of Arc window

Cordes-sur-Ciel, St-Michel

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Façade (13th-15th c.)

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West rose (15th c.)

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Chancel & vault over high altar (13th-15th c.)

Corme-Royal, St-Nazaire

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West façade (late 12th c.) & bell-tower (15th c.) from northwest

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West façade, two levels (late 12th c.)

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West façade, upper left blind arcade & decorated columns (late 12th c.)

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West façade capitals, center portal, left side (late 12th c.)

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West façade, Wise & Foolish Virgins, arcature over window above center portal (late 12th c.)

Coucy-le-Château,
Église St-Sauveur

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Romanesque west front (12th c.)

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Apostles' window (20th c.)

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Sire de Coucy window (20th c.)

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Original Sin window (20th c.)

Cravant, Église

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Church with nave (15th c.) & tower (1552)

Créteil Cathedral

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Cathédrale Notre-Dame interior (20th c.)

Cruas, Abbey-church

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West front & south nave exterior (11th-12th c.)

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East end (11th-12th c.) with ruins of Château of the Monks (12th-14th c.)

Collioure, Notre-Dame-des-Anges

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Église Notre-Dame-des-Anges (1684-89) & bell-tower (old lighthouse)

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High altar in choir (Sunyer, 1698)

Colmar, Collégiale St-Martin

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South tower (14th c.) & south transept (13th c.) from southeast

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West end window (14th c., with modern glass)

Compiègne, Église St-Jacques

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Renaissance lantern of bell-tower (15th c.)

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Nave looking west (13th-15th c.)

Conques, Abbey

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Abbey (begun c. 1050) from southwest

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West front tympanum, 'Last Judgment' (early 12th c.)

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East end of choir (11th-12th c.)

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Nave looking east (11th-12th c.)

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North nave elevation & vault (11th-12th c.)

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Nave looking west (11th-12th c.)

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Annunciation (early 12th c.), north transept

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Lantern dome (15th c.)

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North choir & apse elevation (11th-12th c.)

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Figure holding up base of columns (12th c.), 1st bay, north nave gallery

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'The Mermaid' (late 11th-early 12th c.), south transept gallery

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Floral designs (late 11th-early 12th c.), 2nd bay, south nave gallery

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'Hornblowers & headless eagles,' capital (late 11th-early 12th c.)

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'Musicians,' capital (late 11th-early 12th c.)

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Ste-Foy reliquary (9th-10th c.) in Treasury

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'Mary Magdalene, Martha & Lazarus Arrive in Marseille,' Aubusson tapestry (17th c.)

Corneilla-de-Conflent,
Église Ste-Marie

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West front (12th c.) & southwest bell-tower (11th c.)

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

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West front portal capitals, left side (late 12th c.)

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Southwest bell-tower, upper levels (11th c.) from southwest

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Center & northeast apse windows (12th c.)

Coutances Cathedral

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Cathédrale Notre-Dame, west front (1210-74)

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Choir double columns & high altar (13th c.) from lantern

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South transept windows (15th c.)

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South aisle chapels

Cunault, Priory-church of Notre-Dame

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West façade screen (c. 1200) with crenelations (15th c.)

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West portal tympanum (c. 1200)

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North choir & apse (12th c.)

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North bell-tower, upper levels (end of 11th c.)

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Nave looking east with Romanesque barrel vault (12th c.)

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North nave Gothic elevation, bays 1-3 (c. 1170-99)

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Nave Gothic ribbed vault (c. 1177-90) & Romanesque barrel vault (12th c.)

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Northwest nave column capital (12th c.)

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South ambulatory groin vault (12th c., begun c. 1100)

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Reliquary of St-Maxenceul (13th c.)

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Ste-Catherine (15th c.), northeast ambulatory chapel

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Murals (15th c.) in northeast ambulatory chapel (12th c.)

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Notre-Dame-de-Pitié (16th c.), north ambulatory

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North ambulatory decorated stone floor

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Choir (12th c., begun c. 1100)

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Choir column capitals (12th c.)

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