Basse Oeuvre

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Notre-Dame-de-la-Basse-Ouvre de Beauvais () is a Catholic parish church located at the foot of Saint-Pierre de Beauvais Cathedral. It represents the earlier part of the previous cathedral of Beauvais, which was built at the end of the 10th century in the Carolingian style. Its small cubic apparatus is explained by the re-use of stones from buildings destroyed during the destruction of Beauvais in the third century.

After two fires, the facade was rebuilt in the middle of the 11th century, and already announced the upcoming Romanesque style. The exceptional dimensions of the transept of Saint Peter's Cathedral, called the High Work or New Work at the time of its construction, make the Lower Work appear as a very modest building, but with an interior height of 19 m and a length of 65 m, it was a considerable church in the middle of the Middle Ages. It has been trimmed three times.

At the beginning of the 13th century, the fire of the choir prompted the launch of the Gothic cathedral site around 1225, and a fence wall was established between the western piles of the transept. Three centuries later, in 1510, the vast construction site of the flamboyant Gothic transept led to the...