Senlis Cathedral

Notre- Dame de Senlis is a gothic former cathedral in Senlis, Oise, France. It was built 1153-1191. The west facade was built around 1170, the south tower in the middle of the 13th century, its floor is modeled on the towers of the Cathedral of Laon. The importance of the church is in their " Marie Portal". The area of the repealed in the French Revolution Diocese of Senlis belongs since 1822 to the diocese of Beauvais.

West Portal ( Marie Portal)

The tympanum from the year 1170 shows for the first time a " Coronation of the Virgin " instead of the current practice, the " Last Judgement". The increased Mariolatry evidence for an increasing, humanization ' of the divine. The Senliser portal had great influence on the plastic the next time.

The lintel shows on the left the " Entombment of Mary ", the right " bodily elevation of Mary by angels ." In the diversity of attitudes in the safety and expressiveness of movements lies a capture of the living, the far more approaches than previously animated liveliness.

Interior

The nave shows a three-part wall elevation with galleries. The wall surface is emphasized. After a fire in 1504, the nave was increased by six meters and rebuilt the wall in the flamboyant style without triforium. Only the lower parts of the inside and outside are of the 12th century.

The transept dates from the mid-13th century. The south transept façade was - renovated after the fire of 1504-1534 and is now similar to that in Beauvais, Evreux. The north transept façade followed 1560th

The choir is in the central window in the middle of Empor height " Mary and Child with Two Angels ," which grow out of the service bundle, a baroque room composition according to the model of the Roman sculptor GL Bernini.

The axial chapel was refurbished in 1850.

The internal length of the church is 70.2 m, the height of the nave 18 m, the width of the nave 9.2 m.

The first organ was built in 1647 by an unknown organ builder for the St. Vincent Abbey in Senlis, and 1808 placed in the cathedral. The instrument was repeatedly restored and expanded, including by organ builder Joseph Merklin in 1874, and by organ builder Roger Lambert in the years 1971-1974. Today it has 61 registers, four manuals and pedal. The play and Registertrakturen are mechanical.