Angoulême Cathedral
| Cathedral of Saint Peter of Angoulême Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême | ||
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District Diocese of Angoulême | | |
| Rite | Roman | |
| Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Cathedral | |
| Location | ||
| Location | Angoulême, Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | |
| Geographic coordinates | 45°38′56″N 0°9′6″E / 45.64889°N 0.15167°E | |
| Architecture | ||
| Type | church | |
| Style | Romanesque | |
Angoulême Cathedral (
Bishop of Angoulême
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Architecture and art
The façade is decorated by more than 70 sculptures, organized into two decorative themes, the
Last Judgement, which are cleverly intermingled. Christ is portrayed within mandorlas
, while two tall angels address the apostles to show them the celestial vision. All their faces, as well as those of the other faithful under the arches, look toward the Redeemer; vice versa, the damned, pushed back in the side arches and turned into Satan's victims, suffer their punishment.
Apart from these two main subjects, the sculptors portrayed scenes of everyday life, such as hunting, not avoiding to underline hardships and painstaking labour.
The interior of the nave is covered with three domes, a transept of great length with lofty towers over the north and south ends, and an
pendentives, which has replaced the original one destroyed in the Protestant siege of 1568. Once lighted by two lantern towers, the transept has maintained only the northern one (Abadie also modified it, and moved the medieval sculptures to other locations), characterized by several orders of mullioned
windows.
The semicircular choir is flanked by small apses and covered by a half dome.
See also
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême.
- Angoulême Cathedral at Structurae
- Page with photos and drawings Archived 2010-06-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Abadie, Paul, restorer, "Angoulême Cathedral, under Renovation." (undated albumen print from c. 1865–c. 1886), A. D. White Architectural Photographs Collection, Cornell University Rare and Manuscript Collections (15/5/3090.01431)
- High-resolution 360° Panoramas and Images of Angoulême Cathedral | Art Atlas
| Province of Besançon | |
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| Province of Bordeaux | |
| Province of Clermont | |
| Province of Dijon | |
| Province of Lille | |
| Province of Lyon | |
| Province of Marseille | |
| Province of Montpellier | |
| Province of Paris | |
| Province of Poitiers | |
| Province of Reims | |
| Province of Rennes | |
| Province of Rouen | |
| Province of Toulouse | |
| Province of Tours | |
| Province of Martinique | |
| Province of Papeete | |
| Province of Noumea | |
| Directly under Holy See | |
| Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics | |
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