General Information
| Name in local language: | Cathédrale Saint-André |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Cathedral |
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| Structure: |
Rib vault |
| Architectural style: |
Gothic |
| Material: |
Masonry structure |
Location
| Location: |
Bordeaux, Gironde (33), Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France |
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| Coordinates: | 44° 50' 15" N 0° 34' 40" W |
Technical Information
There currently is no technical data available.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
Bordeaux Cathedral (French:Cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux) is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Andrew and located in Bordeaux, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Bordeaux.
History and description
The cathedral was consecrated by Pope Urban II in 1096. Of the original Romanesque edifice, only a wall in the nave remains. The Royal Gate is from the early 13th century, while the rest of the construction is mostly from the 14th-15th centuries. The building is a national monument of France.
In this church in 1137 the 13-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine married the future Louis VII, a few months before she became Queen.
A separate bell tower, the Tour Pey-Berland, stands next to the cathedral.
The site is served by line A and line B of the tramway de Bordeaux at Station Hôtel de Ville.
Architectural Style
Bordeaux Cathedral is built in the Gothic Style, it has an eastern facing choir with large stain glass windows for letting in morning light, it also has flying buttresses and ribbed vaults that were both decorative and for providing structural support which allowed structural weight to be better distributed going outward instead of downward allowing for thinner, taller, and stronger walls and for more windows letting in more light which was of religious significance at the time of building. The doors of Bordeaux Cathedral have decorated tympanum with depictions of didactic religious scenes and gargoyles and other decorative sculpture throughout as well as tall, thin spires typical of gothic style.
Marcadé collection
The cathedral is home to the Marcadé collection, which consists of a group of forty-two illuminations, among other objects (paintings, sculptures, liturgical vestments and silver objects). It was given to Bordeaux Cathedral by Canon Marcadé in 1947. Of note, these illuminations, little studied so far, will be exhibited starting in 2015 in the cathedral, in a room specially designed for this collection.
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Participants
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Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1992): Aquitaine gothique. Editions Picard, Paris (France), pp. 69-86.
- (1939): La cathédrale Saint-André. Presented at: Congrès archéologique de France, 102ème session, Bordeaux et Bayonne, 1939, pp. 30-58.
- (2001): La cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux. Monum, éditions du patrimoine, Paris (France), pp. 96.
- La cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux. Amis d'Ars et Fides Bordeaux, Villenave-d'Ornon (France), 2004, pp. 34.
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse (Tome III-B). Guyenne. Robert Laffont, Paris (France), pp. 26-33.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20011463 - Published on:
10/01/2004 - Last updated on:
05/09/2018
