Some World-Famous Cathedrals

Cathedral	Location	Style	Date built	Height
Cathedral	Location	Style	Date built	ft	m
Canterbury	Canterbury, England	various	1070–1089, 1175–1184, 1379–1503	235.0	72.0
Chartres (Notre Dame)	Chartres, France	Gothic	12th–13th centuries	375.0 350.0	114.0 107.0
Church of Christ and Blessed Mary the Virgin	Durham, England	Norman	1093–1133	n.a.	n.a.
Cologne	Cologne, Germany	Gothic	1248–1560, 1842–1880	515.0	157.0
Hagia Sophia	Istanbul, Turkey	Byzantine	532–537	184.0	56.0
Imperial	Speyer, Germany	Romanesque	c. 1030–1061	n.a.	n.a.
Lincoln	Lincoln, England	originally Norman	1075–1501	271.0	83.0
Liverpool	Liverpool, England	n.a.	1904–1978	n.a.	n.a.
Lund	Lund, Sweden	Romanesque	11th century	n.a.	n.a.
Milan	Milan, Italy	various (esp. Gothic)	1386–1813	354.0	108.0
Mosque/Cathedral of Córdoba	Cordoba, Spain	Islamic	784–786, 9th–10th centuries	300.0	90.0
Notre Dame	Amiens, France	Gothic	1220–c. 1270, 14th century, 16th century	370.0	113.0
Notre Dame	Antwerp, Belgium	Gothic	14th–16th centuries	400.0	122.0
Notre Dame	Rouen, France	Gothic	12th–15th centuries	495.0	151.0
Notre-Dame de Paris	Paris, France	Gothic	1163–14th century, 1845–	223.0	68.0
Orvieto	Orvieto, Italy	Gothic	1290–1580	n.a.	n.a.
Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro Basilica	Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire	n.a.	1986–1989	489.0	149.0
Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne	Aachen, Germany	Carolingian	790–805	101.5	30.9
Reims	Reims, France	French Gothic	13th–14th centuries	n.a.	n.a.
Rochester	Rochester, England	Norman, Gothic	1125–1130	n.a.	n.a.
St. Basil the Blessed (Church of the Intercession)	Moscow, Russia	n.a.	1554–1560	n.a.	n.a.
St. David's	Saint David's, Wales	Norman	12th century	n.a.	n.a.
St.-Étienne	Caen, France	Norman Romanesque	1060s	295.0	90.0
St. Isaac's	St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian Empire	1818–1858	n.a.	n.a.
St. John the Divine	New York, N.Y.	Byzantine-Romanesque, French-Gothic	1892–	n.a.	n.a.
St. Julien du Mans	Le Mans, France	Gothic, Romanesque	11th–15th centuries	210.0	64.0
St. Patrick's	New York, N.Y.	Gothic	1858–1879	n.a.	n.a.
St. Paul's	London, England	Classical English Baroque	1675–1710	365.0	111.3
St. Peter (York Minster)	York, England	Norman, Gothic	13th–15th centuries	n.a.	n.a.
St. Peter's Basilica	Rome, Italy	n.a.	1506–1626	404.0	123.0
St. Pierre	Beauvais, France	Gothic	1227 (never completed)	157.0	48.0
St. Stephen's	Vienna, Austria	Romanesque, Gothic	1147, 1304–1450, 1952	n.a.	n.a.
Salisbury	Salisbury, England	Early English	1220–1260	404.0	123.0
San Marco Basilica	Venice, Italy	Byzantine	completed 1071	324.0	99.0
Santa Maria	Seville, Spain	Gothic, Moorish, Plateresque, Baroque	1402–1506	n.a.	n.a.
Santa Maria del Fiore	Florence, Italy	Gothic	1296–1436	138.0	42.0
Santiago	Santiago, Spain	Romanesque, Plateresque, Baroque	1078–1211	n.a.	n.a.
Siena	Siena, Italy	Italian Gothic	12th–14th centuries	n.a.	n.a.
Strasbourg	Strasbourg, France	Rhenish	1015–1439	475.0	144.0
Toledo	Toledo, Spain	Gothic	13th century	n.a.	n.a.
Ulm	Ulm, Germany	Gothic	14th century	528.0	161.0
Washington National	Washington, D.C.	English Gothic	1907–1990	n.a.	n.a.
Westminster Abbey	Westminster, England	Gothic, Perpendicular	1050–1065, 1245–16th century	n.a.	n.a.
Winchester	Winchester, England	Norman, Gothic	1093, 14th century	n.a.	n.a.
Worms	Worms, Germany	Romanesque	1018–12th century, 13th–14th centuries	n.a.	n.a.

NOTES: n.a. = not available. For more cathedrals, see Famous Structures.

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