Bourges Cathedral

Built from 1513 on the plans of Guillaume Pelvoysin, the church was consecrated and definitively completed the same year, in 1539. It is truly an attractive building due to its unusual exterior: the continuous roof covering its side chapels is not commonplace. If you are arriving from the station, take a few moments to enter the building. You will admire its rather simple Gothic architecture and its Renaissance canopies, some of which are attributed to Jean Lécuyer.

Like other monuments and a large part of the city, the church was destroyed during the great fire of the Madeleine in July 1487. It was therefore rebuilt in the 16th century, around 1520, the nave having been extended by a fifth span and according to a tradition that has not been historically verified, and it was the local architect Guillaume Pelvoysin who built the north tower. In the seventeenth century, the side entrance to the south was restored in the style of the time, i.e. with Corinthian columns that give a touch of classics. On 27 May 1562, when the Huguenots entered Bourges, it was again pillaged by the troops of the Count of Montgomery.

Church of the diocese of Bourges, built in the second decade of the 20th century, which has the particularity of housing a shrine of Saint Barbara, patron saint of firemen and artillerymen. Legend has it that the invocation of the shrine protects the deceased who had no time to receive the last sacraments.