Cathédrale Notre-Dame-en-Cité d'Arras

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Notre-Dame-en-Cité d'Arras Cathedral is an ancient Gothic-style cathedral located in the so-called "City" district of Arras (Pas-de-Calais). Built mainly in the 12th and 13th centuries and continued during the following centuries, consecrated in 1484, it was destroyed during the French Revolution, its ruins being razed in the early 1800s.

Seat of a bishopric that covered part of the rich county of Flanders at the beginning of the works, before moving to the new county of Artois, the cathedral had large dimensions, supporting the comparison with Notre-Dame de Paris for example, or its neighbour the cathedral Notre-Dame de Cambrai, which was also destroyed. It was one of the great Gothic cathedrals in northern France. After its destruction, the bishopric of Arras was transferred to the abbey church of the former abbey of Saint Vaast, now the current cathedral of Notre-Dame-et-Saint Vaast.

It was located in the district of "La Cité", west of the old Arras. Today's neighbourhood was then an independent city highly influenced by the ecclesiastical power until 1749, the date of the meeting of the City and the City...