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Historical Archive: Chartres Cathedral
ambulatory and radiating chapels

timbers for choir aisle tie-rods felled 1210-1215
chevet finished around 1220
formal dedication October 17, 1260
restoration under Patrice Calvel 2012-2013


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south ambulatory with chancel screen
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chapels of northeast ambulatory, with alternating supports of vaults
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pier, vaults of northeast ambulatory
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ambulatory capital
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ambulatory vaults
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northeast chapel, Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Mary/ of the Martyrs/ of St. Stephen
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grille and windows of northeast chapel
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northeast chapel lower part: grille, gate, reliquary
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reliquary Placide Poussielgue-Rusand 1876, in Goppion display case, with Sancta Camisia (Veil of the Virgin Mary), state in 2016. Now with 2020 Hubert Le Gall case.
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lancet windows of northeast chapel 1220-25, restored 17th c., parts 1915, Lorin 1922
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window of St. Chéron, lower part: masons, sculptors
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window of St. Chéron: masons
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window of St. Chéron: sculptors