Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
cathédrale Saint-Étienne
Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- La cathédrale : classement par liste de 1862
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- cathédrale
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 16e siècle, 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1273
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Limoges
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.82891, 1.26670
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100333
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Succédant à un édifice roman dont ne subsistent que le clocher-porche et la crypte, la construction gothique de la cathédrale débute vers 1273 par le chevet, qui s'achève en 1327. L'édifice n'est terminé qu'en 1888 avec les deux premières travées de la nef. Vitraux de Steinheil et Oudinot, comportant des éléments du 14e siècle.
English translation
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History
Succeeding a Romanesque building of which only the porch tower and the crypt remain, the Gothic construction of the cathedral begins around 1273 with the chevet, which is completed in 1327. The building is not finished until 1888 with the first two bays of the nave. Stained glass by Steinheil and Oudinot, comprising elements from the 14th century.
Nearby in the register
- Eglise et baptistère Saint-Jeanégliseunder 1 mi
- Ancien évêchépalais épiscopalunder 1 mi
- Couvent des Soeurs de la Providencecouventunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.