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The west front of Amiens Cathedral, with deep sculpted portals and two towers of unequal height.
The west front. Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Place · Cathedral

Amiens Cathedral

The largest cathedral by volume in France, built almost entirely between 1220 and about 1270.

Location
Amiens, France
Building
Cathedral (diocesan see)
Tradition
Roman Catholic
Religious use
In use as the cathedral of the Diocese of Amiens.
Official website
Amiens Cathedral

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Built in an unusually short time, Amiens has a rare unity of style and is an early example of High Gothic and the Rayonnant style. It is renowned for its early thirteenth-century sculpture on the west front and south transept. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981.

In the Atlas

Each paragraph says whether it is documented history, a tradition handed down, or disputed.

  • Tradition

    Local tradition holds that Christianity was brought to Amiens in the third century by two martyrs, Firmin the Martyr and Firmin the Confessor.

  • Documented

    The present cathedral was built almost entirely between 1220 and about 1270; its triforium and clerestory were begun in 1236.

Reference draft. The statements were checked against the general reference sources below, read in a build session (Wikipedia at a recorded revision, and Wikidata). They have not yet been checked against scholarly or primary sources.

  • Reference work · Read in a build session

    Amiens Cathedral — Wikipedia (English)

    Read on 28 Oct 2026 at revision 1380651721, fetched by the research workflow (research/fetched/places/amiens-cathedral/wikipedia.txt). A general reference work, not a scholarly source; the statements here were checked against it.

  • Reference work · Read in a build session

    Wikidata item Q106934 (Notre-Dame d'Amiens) — Wikidata

    Read on 28 Oct 2026: instance of, religion, diocese, coordinates and official website.