Noyon Cathedral

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Notre Dame de Noyon Cathedral is a Catholic church located in the centre of the city of Noyon, in the French department of Oise in the Hauts-de-France region. It was the seat of the bishopric of Noyon from the middle of the sixth century until 1790, when this diocese was abolished and its territory incorporated into the diocese of Beauvais. In 1851, the diocese of Beauvais became the diocese of Beauvais-Noyon.

Notre Dame de Noyon Cathedral, built from 1145, is one of the first milestones of Gothic architecture. Around it remains part of the episcopal group and the canonial district as it evolved over time: the ruins of the bishop's chapel, built in the 12th century; a building that served as a refectory of the canons, then as a capitular hall, built in the 13th century, as well as a cloister of the same period; the library of the chapter, dating from the 16th century; the 17th century episcopal palace; lastly the canon houses, rebuilt according to the cases in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. The old church of La Madeleine, whose oldest parts date back to the 12th century, served as a parish for all the inhabitants who resided...