Auxerre & St Étienne Cathedral Photos

Auxerre is noted for its half-timbered buildings & Cathedral St Étienne (13-16th c) where Joan of Arc stopped to pray in 1429.

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Half-timbered buildings & clock tower on Place de l'Hotel de Ville.

Clock tower (Tour Gaillarde) (15th c).

Gothic clock face on Tour Gaillarde.

Nicolas Retif de La Bretonne statue an 18th C novelist who worked near the clock tower.

Statue of poet Marie Noël on Place de l'Hotel de Ville.

Cadet Roussel statue (18th c court official subject of well-known French song) on Place Charles-Surugue.

Post Office on Place Charles-Surugue.

Candies in shop window.

Cathedral St Étienne (13-16th c) where Joan of Arc stopped to pray on February 27, 1429 on her way to Chinon.
Style: Gothic.

Cathedral St Étienne Gothic portal.

Cathedral St Étienne nave.

Stained glass windows above Ambulatory in Cathedral St Étienne.

Ambulatory stained glass windows of Saints in Cathedral St Étienne.

Ambulatory stained glass windows of Saints in Cathedral St Étienne.

Stained glass rose window of the seven arts in Cathedral St Étienne.

Stained glass window of Christ with four Apostles in Cathedral St Étienne.

Stained glass rose window of God the Father with angels (1550) in Cathedral St Étienne.

Rose window of God the Father plus Biblical stories in Cathedral St Étienne.

Stained glass window of flight into Egypt in Cathedral St Étienne.

Boats on L'Yonne River.

St Nicolas statue (1774) patron saint of mariners.

Place St Nicolas.

Place St Nicolas.

Half-timbered buildings on Place St Nicolas.

Half-timbered buildings on Place Charles-Surugue.

Half-timbered building at 23 rue de Cochois.

Half-timbered buildings along rue de L'Yonne.

Detail of half-timbered building.

Half-timbered buildings on Place du Coche D'Eau.

Half-timbered buildings on Place du Coche D'Eau plus Abbey of St. Germaine.

Abbey of St. Germaine from L'Yonne River.

Stained glass of Abbey of St. Germaine.

Cloister carving of Abbey of St. Germaine (6th c). Style: Romanesque.

Bell tower of St Jean (12th c) at Abbey of St. Germaine.
Style: Romanesque.


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