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2017-07-18 - Chartres Cathedral

After the chateaux, we stopped by Chartres chathedral, known for its stained glass. I have put comments on several of the stained glass pictures to (hopefully) assist in understanding them.
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The Good Samaritan and Adam and Eve window
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The Good Samaritan and Adam and Eve window

(Read from bottom to top, left to right) Donated by the shoe makers shown working in panels 1 & 2, and donating the window in panel 3. Panels 4 - 12 depict the parable of the good samaritan. Panels 13 - 23 depict Adam and Eve from creation through the fall and Cain killing Abel. Panel 24 shows Jesus judging the quick and the dead.

  • Memorial to those who died for France.
  • Parking structure
  • Chartres Cathedral in 1979
  • Chartres Cathedral
  • Rose window over the Royal Portal
  • Middle doors of the Royal Portal
  • The Royal Portal - 12th Century
  • The Nave and Choir.
  • The Choir.
  • Interesting gates.
  • St. John the Divine window
  • St. John the Divine window
  • Mary Magdalene window
  • Mary Magdalene window
  • The Good Samaritan and Adam and Eve window
  • The Assumption window
  • The Assumption window
  • The Vendôme Chapel window
  • The Vendôme Chapel window
  • The Miracles of Mary window
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