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The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens ( French: Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens ), or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Amiens. It is situated on a slight ridge overlooking the River Somme in Amiens, the administrative capital of the Picardy region of France, some ...
The Choir Stalls of Amiens Cathedral. Welcome to the choir stalls which flank the two bays of the choir. The canons would gather here to chant the Divine Office (the Psalms) and celebrate the Mass and liturgical feast days. The lateral screens (clôtures) flanking the stalls were constructed in the early sixteenth century.
Introduction to the Choir. Although the term choir is used loosely to designate the eastern end of the cathedral, it should be applied more specifically to the area where members of the chapter sat in their stalls in the two bays immediately to the east of the crossing. To the east of this is the sanctuary terminated by a seven-sided hemicycle.
Because they hindered participation in church rituals by the laity, most European churches eventually eliminated them. The choir screen at the cathedral in Amiens was destroyed in 1755. This relief is one of the largest and best preserved narrative sculptures to survive.
This was the dramatic heart of the cathedral and the staging point to project the liturgy to the layfolk. The screen was demolished in June 1755: fragments of the sculptural program are conserved in the Metropolitan Museum, the Louvre and in the Musée de Picardie in Amiens.
The choir screen on the opposite side is dedicated to Saint-John the Baptist, 1520-1531. The distance from the screen shows less carving details but yields a much better idea of the width between the pillars and height of the cathedral and thus the size of this single tableau.
From 1292 to 1375, the cathedral was enriched with a series of chapels built between the buttresses of the side aisles. 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.
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