Metz Cathedral

About

St. Stephen's Cathedral in Metz is the Catholic cathedral of the diocese of Metz, in the French department of Moselle in the Grand Est region. If its construction lasts 300 years, from 1220 onwards, the cathedral has a certain homogeneity of style: the stylistic criteria were respected in each construction campaign.

The cathedral of Metz is not only the cathedral of France with the largest glazed surface, nearly 6,500 m2, but also the one with the largest Gothic windows in Europe. As for the height of its vaults, it is surpassed in France only by the cathedrals of Beauvais (incompleted) and Amiens. The knight Joseph Bard paid tribute to the quality of the cathedral and its adornment of stained glass in the article he wrote in the 1846 Archaeological Congress of France.

He called it "the lantern of God." The cathedral has been classified as historical monuments since 16 February 1930. Among the ten most frequented cathedrals in France, she is a candidate for a UNESCO ranking.