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Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre

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Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre
Phone:
+33 3 86 51 29 20

Hours:
Sunday8:30am - 6pm
Monday8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday8:30am - 6pm
Wednesday8:30am - 6pm
Thursday8:30am - 6pm
Friday8:30am - 6pm
Saturday8:30am - 6pm


Auxerre Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in Auxerre, Burgundy, France. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Stephen, and is known for its large stained glass windows.Most of the Burgundian Gothic cathedral was built between 1215 and 1233, above an 11th-century crypt. Construction continued until the 1540s when the cupola, in Renaissance style that takes the place of one pinnacle on the completed tower, was completed. The first building campaign erected the chevet at the liturgical east end, followed later in the century by a new façade and the bases of new towers at the west end . Construction on the nave and transepts proceeded slowly throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. The narrative sculptural program of the portals on the west end are noted for their extent and variety.Guillaume de Seignelay, bishop of Auxerre decided to undertake the reconstruction of the older edifice about 1215, to which he set an example by contributing heavily and consistently from his own resources, and even bequeathed funds after his transfer to the see of Paris in 1220. The chevet was completed by his successor, Henri de Villeneuve ; he left 1000 livres for the project, but construction slowed after his death, hampered by a dearth of funds. Stimulus was provided about 1270 by Jean de Châlons-Rochefort, who had recently become Count of Auxerre, having supported the Duke of Burgundy against his own brother, by marrying Alix, the heiress of Auxerre. He was the largest fief-holder in the Duchy and commemorated the new status of his fief of Auxerre by enriching the front of its chief ornament, the cathedral, whose Carolingian nave had been erected by his ancestor Hugh de Châlons, 10th-century bishop of Auxerre. Its program of sculpture was carried through long after his death and completed in the early 15th century.
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