Chartres: photos

APOSTLES 13TH CENTURY apse ARCH OF LEFT architecture BIBLICAL CHARACTERS building buttresses and flying-buttresses cantoned by three cath CENTRAL DOOR centre century Rue chancel Chartres cathedral chevet CHOIR SCREEN CHURCH OF SAINT-AIGNAN CLOISTER OF NOTRE-DAME decoration doorway edral Eure façade faith five radiating chapels France gallery garden genius Gothic Gothic architecture Hôtel Jehan de Beauce La Beauce LEFT DOOR LEFT SIDE LINTEL lower town magnificent masterpiece MID-12TH CENTURY narthex nave NORTH PORCH 13TH north side NOTRE-DAME APPEARS Notre-Dame de Chartres old bishop's palace OLD STEEPLE ornamentation pier cantoned PORCH 13TH CENTURY porch and portal Porte de l'Officialité rebuilt Rheims RIGHT DOOR RIGHT SIDE Roman crypt rose window Rosset de Fleury ROYAL PORTAL Rue des Changes sacristy SAINT PIAT sculptured seen shown towards mediaeval side-aisles SOUTH PORCH splendid stained glass STAIRWAY TURRET STATUES OF BIBLICAL STATUES OF SAINT steeples of Chartres terrace Tertres quarter towers transept TYMPANUM upper town vault Virgin