Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Amiens Cathedral' has mentioned 'Transept' in the following places:
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| [8] Although it has lost much of its original stained glass, Amiens Cathedral is renowned for the quality and quantity of early 13th-century Gothic sculpture in the main west faxc3xa7ade and the south transept portal, and a large quantity of polychrome sculpture from later periods inside the building. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Earlier cathedrals 1.2 Construction 1.3 Strengthening (15th century) 1.4 Modifications (16xe2x80x9318th century) 1.5 The Revolution and the 19th century 1.6 Protection and restoration (20th century) 2 Exterior 2.1 The west facade and the portals 2.2 Bell towers 2.3 Beau Pilier 2.4 The flxc3xa8che 2.5 Flying buttresses 3 Interior 3.1 The nave 3.2 The pulpit 3.3 The transept 3.4 The choir 3.5 The Choir screen (15thxe2x80x9316th c.) 3.6 The altar 3.7 The labyrinth 3.8 The chevet and east chapels 3.9 The lateral and transept chapels 4 The treasury 5 Stained glass windows 5.1 Rose windows 6 The organ 7 Light show - the faxc3xa7ade in colour 8 Notable burials and memorials 9 Notes and citations 10 Bibliography and sources 11 Further reading 12 See also 13 External links | WIKI |
| At the end of the 13th century, the arms of the transept were completed, and in the beginning of the 14th century the facades and the upper towers were finished. | WIKI |
| While these works underway, the chapels between the buttresses and at the angles of the transept were added. | WIKI |
| In 1497 the four pillars of the transept crossing, as well as the two left columns of the chevet began to show cracks and other signs of stress. | WIKI |
| It also underwent several modifications to accommodate changing styles; a new rose window, in the Flamboyant Gothic style, full of curls and counter-curls, was installed in the west transept. | WIKI |
| The original 13th-century flxc3xa8che, or spire of the cathedral, located over the crossing point of the transept and nave, was destroyed by lightning in 1528, but was replaced by a new flxc3xa8che, constructed of a wooden frame covered with gilded lead plates. | WIKI |
| The nave and the transept were the areas where the public worshiped, while the choir was reserved for clergy. | WIKI |
| The transept[edit] | WIKI |
| The transept crossing the church in the center is seventy meters long, and divided into three vessels. | WIKI |
| The centre of the transept, where it crosses the nave, is covered by a massive star vault, one of the earliest in France, supported by four massive pillars. | WIKI |
| Transept and north stained glass windows The star vault of the transept, where it meets the nave South transept rose window (16th century) | WIKI |
| The lateral and transept chapels[edit] | WIKI |
| In addition to the chapels at the east end, small chapels occupy both sides of the nave and angles of the transept. | WIKI |
| In the north transept, the Chapel of Saint Peter occupies the northeast corner. | WIKI |
| On the east side of the north transept is the Chapel of Saint Sebastian, also known as the Chapel of the Green Pillar. | WIKI |
| On the west wall of the north transept are four scenes in high relief showing Christ driving the merchants from the Temple, made in 1523 by Jean Wytz. | WIKI |
| Another early work in the transept is the altarpiece of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Red Pillar, an assembly of sculpture and paintings, clustered around a main pillar. | WIKI |
| The south transept contains the Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in the southeast corner, with statues of those saints made by Jean-Baptiste Michel Dupuis in 1749. | WIKI |
| A group of polychrome reliefs illustrating the vow of John the Baptist, made in 1511, is found on the west wall of the south transept. | WIKI |
| Other objects of interest are found in the chapels along the nave and transept. | WIKI |
| The rose window of the north transept has the characteristic radiating tracery of the Rayonnant Gothic. | WIKI |
| The rose window of the south transept is the latest, from 1489xe2x80x9390, with the curves and reverse curves of the late Gothic Flamboyant style. | WIKI |
| High Gothic rose window of the west facade (1221xe2x80x931230) Rayonnant rose window of the north transept (14th c.) Flamboyant rose window of the south transept (16th c.) | WIKI |
| The rigorous coherence of its plan, with the perfect symmetry of the nave and choir on either side of the transept, the beauty of its three-tier interior elevation, the audacious lightness of its structure that marks a new stage towards the conquest of luminosity, the wealth of its sculpted decoration and its stained glass makes it one of the most remarkable examples of medieval architecture. | UNESCO |
| With the spire constructed above the transept crossing, the choir screen and the splendid canonical sculpted wood stalls, the cathedral assumed, at the end of the Middle Ages, the physiognomy by which it is known today. | UNESCO |