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About Angers Cathedral

The Angers Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Angers in Angers, France. Worked between the 11th and 16th centuries, It was grouped in 1862 as a national landmark of France for its blend of Romanesque and Gothic engineering styles, particularly the Angevin Gothic style, and for the recolored glass windows, including the transept's window of Saint Julian, viewed as a perfect work of art of French 13th century glasswork.

The first Romanesque church was remade with Gothic subtleties in the mid-12th century. The single-path plan was vaulted with pointed curves laying on a re-clad inside rise. The nave comprises of three straightforward inlets, with single sounds on either side of an intersection framing transepts, trailed by a solitary narrows choir, sponsored by an apse. The tower in the renaissance style, with a hexagonal crown, was set on the cusp of the north pinnacle in 1518, and an indistinguishable pinnacle was additionally worked, in 1523, on the cusp of the south tower. Amid the Middle Ages, both the Angers Cathedral and the Amiens Cathedral asserted that they were in control of the presumed head of St. John the Baptist, which had been conveyed to France from the 4th Crusade however had since been lost.

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