Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres
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This place is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed as Cathédrale de Chartres. |
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This building is classé au titre des monuments historiques de la France. It is indexed in the base Mérimée, a database of architectural heritage maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, under the reference PA00096993 |

Notre-Dame de Chartres is a Gothic cathedral in Chartres, France. The west facade was built in 1134–1145 and the rest was built in 1194–1260.
Photos - Exterior
West facade
Southeast view
Portals
- West facade, portals
- Central bay
- North transept, porch of middle portal
- South porch
- Pillar statues
- Central tympanum
Flying buttresses
- Flying buttresses of the nave
- Flying buttresses of the nave
- Flying buttresses of the nave
- Flying buttresses of the apse
Other views
- View from the north
Photos - Interior
- Chartres Interior
- Labyrinth at the cathedral
- Sculptures of the choir
- Astronomical clock
- Well of the crypt
Stained-glass windows
These pictures are considered as Featured pictures and Quality images on Wikimedia Commons:
- 1145–1155:
the 3 bays under the western rose window. - 1180:
Notre-Dame de la Belle Verrière, in the ambulatory. - 1205–1215:
western rose window from outside. - 1205–1215:
the life of Joseph, in the northern side aisle. - 1221–1230:
the southern rose window. - 1230:
the northern rose window. - 13th-century:
detail: the marriage at Cana, in Notre-Dame de la Belle Verrière. - 13th-century:
the Annunciation, in the ambulatory. - 1867:
chrome lithography of the stained-glass window: the life of Jesus, Paris, Imprimerie impériale.
More stained-glass windows of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres …
- The Zodiac window (bay 28a)
- The Good Samaritan Window (bay 44)
Drawings
Drawings of Viollet-le-Duc
- Plan
- Plan of the first storey
- South tower from west facade
- Tympanum from main portal
- Column
Other drawings
- West facade
- South elevation
- View from the south
- West facade