Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cathédrale Notre-Dame
Amiens, Somme, 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
- Dates
- 1220
- Architect or builder
- Luzarches Robert de (architecte), Cormont Thomas de (architecte), Cormont Regnault de (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Amiens
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.89453, 2.30218
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116046
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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 1607 map "Picardia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'édifice est bâti au début du 13e siècle pour contenir la relique du chef de Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Les architectes Robert de Luzarches, Thomas et Regnault de Cormont, se succèdent au cours des travaux qui s'étendent de 1220 à 1270, bâtissant la plus grande cathédrale du Moyen-Age.
English translation
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History
The building was built in the early 13th century to contain the relic of the head of Saint-Jean-Baptiste. The architects Robert de Luzarches, Thomas and Regnault de Cormont succeed one another in the course of work extending from 1220 to 1270, building the largest cathedral of the Middle Ages.
Nearby in the register
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- Ancien évéchépalais épiscopalunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.