Angouleme Cathedral

Angouleme Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Angouleme, Charente, France. The house of God is in the Romanesque engineering and sculptural custom, and is the seat of the Bishop of Angouleme. A first house of prayer was based on the site of a crude, pre-Christian asylum, in the 4th century. The building was annihilated when the town was taken by Clovis after the Battle of Vouille. Another church building was blessed in 560, yet this was likewise determined to flame, possibly by the Vikings/Normans somewhere in the range of two centuries later. A third church was then developed under religious administrator Grimoard, abbot of Saint-Pierre de Brantome.

The new church was blessed in 1017. Notwithstanding, toward the start of the 12th century the natives began to think of it as unreasonably little for to the abundance of the province. The creator was diocesan Gerard II, a standout amongst the most essential French figures of the time, who was a teacher, Papal legate for four popes and furthermore a remarkable craftsman. Works started around 1110 and completed in 1128. The congregation's unique appearance was changed in the next century. One of the chime towers, for instance, was decimated amid the Wars of Religion of the 16th century.