Lisieux Cathedral

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Lisieux Cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Lisieux
Bishop of Lisieux
Region	Calvados
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Cathedral
Status	Active
Location
Location	Lisieux,  France
Geographic coordinates	49°8′48″N 0°13′37″E / 49.14667°N 0.22694°E / 49.14667; 0.22694
Architecture
Type	church
Groundbreaking	12th century
Completed	18th century

Lisieux Cathedral (

History

An earlier cathedral is presumed to have existed since the 6th century, as there was a

A previous cathedral build in the Romanesque style was burned by

Having been involved in the trial of Joan of Arc, Pierre Cauchon was named as Bishop of Lisieux in 1432 and is buried there. A new south-west tower with a pre-gothic design was build in 1553 when the previous had fallen.^[4]

Description

The edifice is 110 meters and is a national monument.^[5]

The west front of the building consists of three portals surmounted by two towers. The south tower was built in the 16th century and at the top bears a 17th-century

wholly intact, although the town suffered Allied bombing in 1944.

From the outset, the architect designed quadripartite rib vaults and flying buttresses, making it one of Normandy’s first

chevet, the lantern tower

and the western façade) in Norman style.

Galery

• 
  Interior
• 
  Apse

See also

• List of Gothic Cathedrals in Europe
• Basilica of Sainte-Thérèse, Lisieux

References

1. ^ ^{a b} O'Reilly 2022, p. 531.
2. ^ Grant 2005, p. 67.
3. ^ Grant 2005, pp. 85–86.
4. ^ ^{a b} O'Reilly 2022, p. 532.
5. ^ Ministère de la Culture, Eglise Saint-Pierre, ancienne cathédrale (in French), accessed 1 November 2022

Sources

• Grant, Lindy (1 January 2005). Architecture and Society in Normandy 1120-1270. Yale University Press. p. 67.
  ISBN 978-0-300-10686-2
  . Retrieved 21 February 2024.
• O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle (1 August 2022). How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. DigiCat. Retrieved 21 February 2024.

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