Guided tour: «Cathedral under construction»

Name: Visite guidée : « Cathédrale en chantier »
Start: 2023-09-16T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Cathédrale Sainte-Marie et cloître

Scaffolding hides the south tower of St. Mary’s Cathedral. A large restoration project is underway. But what is it? Come and learn it during this compag…

Samedi 16 septembre 2023, 15h00, 16h30Passé

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Scaffolding conceals the south tower of St. Mary’s Cathedral. A vast restoration is underway. But what is it? Come and learn it during this meeting in the company of stonemasons and sculptors.
Proposed by the city of Bayonne in partnership with the company Arrebat and Drac Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

À propos du lieu

Cathédrale Sainte-Marie et cloître

Place Pasteur, 64100 Bayonne

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Sainte-Marie Cathedral stands in the heart of the city, on the small hill overlooking the Nive. It is one of the largest Gothic churches in the Pyrenean region (80 m long, 33 m wide, 26 m high under the vault in the central vessel).
After the 1258 fire that destroyed the first Romanesque cathedral, the construction of the new Gothic building stretched from the second half of the 13th century to the beginning of the 16th century. The influence of the great cathedrals of northern France (like that of Soissons) can be seen in the ambulatory. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the south bell tower was endowed with the present belfry and an imperial dome and the choir with a carpeted decoration surrounding the liturgical space. This monumental ensemble arrived very mutilated by time and men until the nineteenth century.
In the second half of the century, the exterior architecture was modified and completed and its interior decoration was decorated in a neo-Gothic style. The work w