Some World-Famous Cathedrals
Cathedral | Location | Style | Date built | Height | |
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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 Crdoba | 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, Cte 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.-tienne | 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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