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Key facts
- Affiliation
- Roman Catholic
- Diocese
- Diocese of Tournai
- Ecclesiastical or organizational status
- Cathedral
- Leadership
- Bishop Guy Harpigny
- Location
- Tournai , Hainaut, Belgium
- Architects
- Building: unknown , Sacristy: G. Hersecap , Holy Spirit chapel: Simon Vollant
- Type
- Church
- Style
- Romanesque , Gothic , French Baroque
- Groundbreaking
- Nave: 1140 and 1171 , Transepts: 1199–1213 , Transept vaults: 1243–1255 , Gothic choir: 1243–1255 , Sacristy: 1676 , Holy Spirit chapel: 1680
- Direction of fa ade
- NW
- Length
- 134 metres (440 ft)
- Width
- 60 metres (200 ft)
- Width nave
- 20 metres (66 ft)
- Height max
- 83 metres (272 ft)
- Spire
- 5 (7 planned)
- Spire height
- 83 metres (272 ft)
- Criteria
- ii, iv
- State party
- Belgium
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- church building
- Named after
- Mary
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Tournai
- Area
- 0.4963
- Dedicated to
- Mary
- Official website
- www.cathedrale-tournai.be
- Image
- Tournai pan.jpg
- Height
- 83
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- Commons gallery
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai
- applies to jurisdiction
- Walloon Region
- Commons Institution page
- Cathedral, Tournai
- Commons category
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame (Tournai)
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- architectural style
- Gothic architecture
- inception
- 1101-01-17
- Christian liturgical rite
- Roman Rite
- native label
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai
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Encyclopedic overview
The Cathedral of Our Lady (French: Notre-Dame de Tournai; Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Doornik), or Tournai Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral, see of the Diocese of Tournai in Tournai, Belgium. It has been classified both as a Wallonia major heritage site since 1936 and as a World Heritage Site since 2000.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tournai Cathedral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.