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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Bourges Cathedral' has mentioned 'Cathedral' in the following places:
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| Cathedral in Bourges, Cher, France | WIKI |
| The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Stephen and is the seat of the Archbishop of Bourges. | WIKI |
| The cathedral is particularly known for the great size and unity of its interior, the sculptural decoration of its portals, and the large collection of 13th century stained glass windows. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Earlier cathedrals 1.2 The Gothic cathedral (12thxe2x80x9313th century) 1.3 14thxe2x80x9316th century 1.4 17thxe2x80x9318th century 1.5 19thxe2x80x9321st century 2 Exterior 2.1 Faxc3xa7ade or west front 2.2 Portals 2.3 Towers and the Grand Housteau 2.4 North and south sides 2.5 The Chevet 3 Interior 3.1 Plan and elevation 3.2 Nave and choir 3.3 Chapels 3.4 Lower church and the tomb of the Duke of Berry 3.5 Organ 3.6 Astronomical clock 4 Stained glass 4.1 Grand Housteau and apse 4.2 Windows of the apse ambulatory (13th century) 4.3 Stained Glass Legendary Windows in the Disambulatory (13th century) 4.4 Windows of the nave and choir 4.5 15th- and 16th-century stained glass 5 See also 6 Notes and citations 7 Bibliography 8 External links | WIKI |
| Between 1013 and 1030 a new and larger cathedral was constructed by the Bishop Gauzelin. | WIKI |
| Like the earlier churches, it was built against the city wall, and vestiges of it can be found under the present cathedral. | WIKI |
| [2] In 1145 his son Louis VII of France presented his new wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, and she was formally crowned Queen of France in the old Gothic Cathedral in Bourges. | WIKI |
| Beginning in about 1150 the Archbishop Pierre de La Chxc3xa2tre enlarged the old cathedral by adding two new collateral aisles, one on either side, each with two romanesque portals, and also planned the reconstruction of the west front. | WIKI |
| The Gothic cathedral (12thxe2x80x9313th century)[edit] | WIKI |
| A document from the Bishop, Henry de Sully, indicated the total reconstruction of the cathedral in 1195. | WIKI |
| The cathedral was begun at about the same time as Chartres Cathedral, but the basic plan was very different. | WIKI |
| The cathedral was complete enough by 1225 to be able to host a large council condemning the heresy of Catharism. | WIKI |
| By 1259 the cathedral was nearly finished, only sixty-three years from its start, a record time for a Gothic Cathedral. | WIKI |
| The cathedral was formally consecrated on 5 May 1334 by Archbishop Guillaume de Brosse. | WIKI |
| A tall wooden spire was added to the cathedral, and the walls were strengthened with additional arched buttresses. | WIKI |
| Between 1406 and 1491, eleven new chapels were built along the flanks of the Cathedral between the buttresses. | WIKI |
| Bourges Cathedral (background) depicted in the 15th century Interior of Bourges Cathedral, depicted in the Trxc3xa8s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (15th century) The west portals depicted in the Trxc3xa8s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (15th century) Bourges in the 16th century, with cathedral on hilltop | WIKI |
| In 1424 the cathedral was furnished with a technological novelty, an astronomical clock, still functional. | WIKI |
| They pillaged the Cathedral treasury, overturned statues and smashed some of the bas-relief sculpture. | WIKI |
| De Lorges was preparing to blow up the cathedral when he was dissuaded by others who wanted to convert it into a Protestant church. | WIKI |
| A new organ was installed in the cathedral in 1667, portions of which still are in use. | WIKI |
| The fleche of the cathedral, rebuilt four times, was finally removed in 1745. | WIKI |
| In the 18th century, the entire cathedral underwent a more serious transformation, to conform with new doctrines instituted by the Vatican. | WIKI |
| During the French Revolution, the cathedral was transformed for a time into a Temple of Reason. | WIKI |
| Following the destruction of much of the Ducal Palace and its chapel during the revolution, the tomb effigy of Duke Jean de Berry was relocated to the Cathedral's crypt, along with some stained glass panels showing standing prophets, which were designed for the chapel by Andrxc3xa9 Beauneveu. | WIKI |
| In the 19th century, the cathedral was returned to the Catholic Church and underwent a long restoration from 1829 until 1847. | WIKI |
| In 1862, under Emperor Louis Napoleon, the cathedral was declared an historic monument. | WIKI |
| In 1992, the cathedral was added to the list of the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. | WIKI |
| The Cathedral in 1840 | WIKI |
| The faxc3xa7ade or west front, the main entrance to the cathedral, is on a particularly grand scale when compared with other cathedrals of the period; it has five portals accessing the central aisle and four side aisles, more than Notre Dame de Paris or any other cathedral of the period. | WIKI |
| The sculpture in the tympanum of the portal on the far right facing the cathedral represents the life of the local saint and former Bishop of Bourges St Ursinus. | WIKI |
| It shows Ursinus dedicating the cathedral. | WIKI |
| The portal to the near right of the center depicts the life of Saint Stephen, the patron saint of the Cathedral, including his death by stoning. | WIKI |
| The Portal of Saint Guillaume also depicts the richly ornamented spire that once adorned the cathedral. | WIKI |
| Romanesque carved portals from about 1160xe2x80x9370, probably intended for the faxc3xa7ade of the earlier cathedral, have been reused on the south and north doors (occupying the spaces normally reserved for transept portals). | WIKI |
| The portal of Saint Guillaume depicts the spire of the Cathedral, since disappeared Angels in the portal of Saint Stephen arch of Lower arcade in the portal of Saint Stephen (13th c.) | WIKI |
| The original 16th-century pelican statue is kept inside the Cathedral. | WIKI |
| This tower contains the six bells of the cathedral, which replaced those melted down during the Revolution. | WIKI |
| This buttress, besides supporting the tower, contained a stairway and the small prison operated by the Cathedral chapter. | WIKI |
| The upper room of the buttress was used as the office of the architect, and has plans of the bays and a rose window etched on the stone floor, where they could be consulted by Cathedral builders. | WIKI |
| The south tower originally contained the belfry and the great bells of the cathedral. | WIKI |
| South side of the cathedral and south porch | WIKI |
| Small chapels were constructed between a number of the buttresses in later centuries, but in those bays without chapels, the walls of the old Romanesque cathedral are still visible. | WIKI |
| It contains vestiges of the older Romanesque church, particularly six column-statues which date to about 1150-60, which were put in place under the porch in the 13th century as a reminder of the long history of the cathedral. | WIKI |
| Some of the sculpture is inscribed with the heart and letter J emblem of the family of Jacques Coeur, prominent Bourges merchants and major donors to the cathedral. | WIKI |
| Their tombs are inside the cathedral. | WIKI |
| Like the south porch, the portals of the north porch are decorated with column statues and other sculptures dating back to the Romanesque cathedral. | WIKI |
| The sacristy of the cathedral, next to the porch, also juts out from the north side. | WIKI |
| The Chevet is the French term for the exterior of the apse, the east end of the cathedral, with its ring of radiating chapels. | WIKI |
| The cathedral's nave is 41 metres (135xc2xa0ft) wide by 37 metres (121xc2xa0ft) high; its arcade is 20 metres (66xc2xa0ft) high; the inner aisle is 21.3 metres (70xc2xa0ft) and the outer aisle is 8.6 metres (28xc2xa0ft) high. | WIKI |
| The cathedral is ringed with chapels constructed over the centuries, inserted into the spaces between the buttresses on the flanks, and radiating in a half-circle around the chevet. | WIKI |
| It was funded by Jean de Breuil, archdeacon of the cathedral and a counsellor of the Parliament of Paris. | WIKI |
| The most poignant chapel is that of Jacques Coeur, one of the major donors to the Cathedral. | WIKI |
| Fine examples of 15th-century sculpture are found in the Chapel of Notre-Dame La Blanche, in the center of the apse at the east end of the Cathedral. | WIKI |
| These include busts of the Duke Jean de Berry, whose tomb in the lower church, and that of his wife Jeanne be Boulogne, were made by Jean de Cambrai in about 1403 They were moved to the Cathedral from the Sainte-Chapelle chapel in Bourges in 1757. | WIKI |
| Tomb of John, Duke of Berry in the lower church Portions of the original Jubxc3xa9, or Rood screen, of the Cathedral Sculpture of those condemned to hell from the original rood screen (1230s) | WIKI |
| The original organ of the cathedral was below the rose window on the inside the west front. | WIKI |
| The original mechanism is on display in the cathedral. | WIKI |
| The central window depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Infant Saint Stephen, holding a model of the cathedral. | WIKI |
| The ambulatory includes several other Typological window (similar to examples at Sens Cathedral and Canterbury Cathedral), and several hagiographic cycles, the story of the Old Testament patriarch, Joseph and symbolic depictions of the Apocalypse and Last Judgement. | WIKI |
| The French art historian Louis Grodecki identified three distinct masters or workshops involved in the glazing, one of whom may also have worked on the windows of Poitiers Cathedral. | WIKI |
| The cathedral, which was dedicated to the first Christian martyr, Saint Etienne, occupies the site of a place of worship since the 3rd century. | UNESCO |
| The plan of the cathedral is simple and harmonious. | UNESCO |
| The most remarkable characteristics of the cathedral are the perspective of the lateral walls and the unity of the interior space. | UNESCO |
| The following centuries left their mark on the cathedral: the stained-glass windows hence comprise a true encyclopaedia of this art of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. | UNESCO |
| Legally of the Catholic religion, the cathedral cannot be used for any other worship. | UNESCO |