French author Louis Charpentier claimed that the Ark was taken to Chartres Cathedral by the Knights Templar.

During the High Middle Ages, Chartres Cathedral operated the famous and influential Chartres Cathedral School.

The government of a bishop is typically symbolized by a cathedral church, such as the Catholic Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres | bishops's Chartres Cathedral | seat at Chartres.

Chartres Cathedral, about 1750, Jean Baptiste Rigaud

Walking the labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral

* 1260 – The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France ; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Both are expensive but durable, the vast copper roof of Chartres Cathedral, oxidised to a pale green colour, having been in place for hundreds of years.

* The rebuilding of the Cathedral of Chartres, which had been destroyed by a fire in 1194, is completed.

Masterpieces of architecture and sculpture were completed at cathedrals around Europe, including the Cathedral of Chartres and Nicola Pisano's pulpits for the Duomo di Siena and Pisa's Baptistery.

* 1260 – October 24 – The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France ; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

* June 10 – A fire at Chartres Cathedral leads to the start of its rebuilding.

* Construction begins on Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France.

* October 24 – The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France ( the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site ).

He reconverted to Catholicism in 1593 — he is said to have remarked, " Paris is well worth a mass "— and was crowned King of France at the Cathedral of Chartres on 27 February 1594.

Chartres Cathedral, France, a famous landmark which draws both pilgrims and art lovers.

Simon de Montfort, in a drawing of a stained glass window found at Chartres Cathedral

De Montfort's banner described as the ' Arms of Honour of Hinckley ', shown in the stained glass image in Chartres Cathedral, is used by the town of Hinckley, part of his Earldom in Leicestershire, in their town coat of arms.

The Royal Portal of Chartres Cathedral.

* 1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.

* 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid.

* 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated.

* 1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

It is preserved today in a 19th century reliquary, in Notre Dame de Paris | Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris.

* 1434 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.

After the 1174 fire in Canterbury Cathedral, Ælfheah's remains together with those of Dunstan were placed around the high altar, at which Thomas Becket is said to have commended his life into Ælfheah's care shortly before his martyrdom during the Becket controversy.

* 1093 – The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.

A musical child, he sang in the boys ' choir at the Salzburg Cathedral where he is believed to have taken music lessons with Michael Haydn.

* The town is also home to Ajaccio Cathedral.

The relic of St Athanasius the Great of Alexandria is currently preserved under the new Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Deir El-Anba Rowais, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt.

Also located on the island and adjacent to the Lustgarten and palace is Berlin Cathedral, emperor William II's ambitious attempt to create a Protestant counterpart to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

St. Hedwig's Cathedral is Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral.

The precise formation mechanism is not known for certain, but the most widely accepted hypothesis suggests that the edge of the Cathedral Formation reef became detached from the rest of the reef, slumping and being transported some distance — perhaps kilometers — away from the reef edge.

This would have left a steep cliff, the bottom of which would be protected, because the limestone of the Cathedral Formation is difficult to compress, from tectonic decompression.

The Liber Vitae of Durham Cathedral includes a list of priests ; two are named Bede, and one of these is presumably Bede himself.

The existing church building is dated 1469-72 and was until the building of Truro Cathedral the largest church in Cornwall.

A remnant of these earlier cardinals is retained by the Church of England, where the title of " cardinal " is still held by the two senior members of the College of Minor Canons of St Paul's Cathedral.

For example, there is a record that in 1176 Sens Cathedral installed a ‘ horologe ’ but the mechanism used is unknown.

The Church of Ireland Cathedral in Derry is dedicated to St Columba.

The Cathedral there is named for him.

Chicago is also a prominent center of the Polish Cathedral style of church architecture.

The application of the catenary to the construction of arches is attributed to Robert Hooke, whose " true mathematical and mechanical form " in the context of the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral alluded to a catenary.