Saint Omer Cathedral

Saint Omer Cathedral is a Roman Catholic former cathedral, a minor basilica, and a rustic wide monument of France, located in Saint Omer. It become formerly the seat of the Bishop of Saint Omer, however the see changed into now not restored after the French Revolution, being instead absorbed into the Diocese of Arras below the Concordat of 1801. The church is still generally referred to as the cathedral however.A modest chapel, inside the starting, from the 7th century, the church come to be constructed on the net web page round 1052; It became damaged spherical 1200 via a fire. The choir, the ambulatory and the radiant chapels were then rebuilt, and in 1263 the transept changed into built.

Work improved slowly and unfolds from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. Afterwards the church has grown to be collegiate. The southern transept has become extended in 1375 - 1379 and the nave was rebuilt. The lateral chapels of the nave date from 1386 to 1403. The oldest chapels have been constructed within the south. The vital nave modified into finished simplest in 1473, and its vaults in 1506. From 1449 to 1472, Jehan de Milder, high contractor, proceeded to increase the north move-phase of the transept. At that point the tower to the west which had remained Romanesque changed into consolidated and improved.