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Basilica of Saint-Denis

The abbey church north of Paris rebuilt under Abbot Suger, whose new choir and ambulatory - consecrated in 1144 after work from about 1140 - are conventionally taken as the first coherent…

48.9, 2.4 · approximate · Suger's choir c. 1140-1144; earlier and later fabric on the site

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  • precedes Chartres Cathedral — Suger's choir of 1140-1144 assembles the Gothic elements; Chartres from 1194 is where the resulting system is built whole and fast.
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