Visit a cathedral witness to 5 centuries of architectural evolution

Name: Visit a cathedral witness to 5 centuries of architectural evolution
Start: 2023-09-15T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:45:00+02:00
Location: Cathédrale Saint-Étienne

The Cathedral of Châlons-en-Champagne is to discover at your own pace via visiting booklets made available to you (from 3 years).

15 - 17 September 2023Passed

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The Cathedral of Châlons-en-Champagne is to be discovered at your own pace via booklets at your disposal (from 3 years).

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Visite libre

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Gratuit

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Tout public

About the location

Cathédrale Saint-Étienne

Rue Vialard, 51000 Châlons-en-Champagne

Marne
Grand Est

The Saint-Etienne Cathedral offers the visitor the testimony of an architectural evolution over 5 centuries, between the 12th and 17th centuries more precisely. Begun in Romanesque style, construction continued in Gothic and then Baroque style. In 700 years, expansions, modifications and reconstructions have marked its history.
In the 1200’s, the cathedral stood in the heart of the canonical district, which occupied a quarter of the ancient Gallo-Roman city. A real city in the city with a bishopric, churches, canonical houses, a library, a school, a prison, a hospital… today disappeared. From the first Romanesque construction of the twelfth century only the crypt and the base of the north tower of the transept remain. Following a fire in 1138, the north transept was rebuilt. In the years that followed, the nave was rebuilt in Gothic style and the south arm of the transept was completed in 1215.
In 1230, a new fire ravaged the cathedral which had to be rebuilt in large part. A new bedsi