Basilica of Our Lady, Beaune, France

The canons began building the building in the middle of the 12th century and the construction, from east to west, was not completed until the beginning of the 13th century . The canonical buildings date from the end of the 12th century, the porch from the middle of the 13th century .

After the fire of 1272, work was undertaken; the upper parts of the apse were rebuilt at the level of the blind arcade  : the Romanesque windows were replaced by immense Gothic windows with tracery and flying buttresses established on the Romanesque buttresses of theambulatory  ; the cornices and windows of the ambulatory were reworked, the roofs and the tower of the transept modified.

The chapels were added from the 13th century to the  16th century ; tea  most notable are the Saint-Léger chapel decorated with murals and the chapel of Canon Bouton built between 1529 and 1533. The Gothic spire of the church was replaced by an imperial roof built from 1580 to 1588, based on plans by Hugues Sambin .

The Revolution destroyed the statuary of the portal and a large part of the liturgical furniture. A fragment of the Romanesque altar was found in 1843, and is now exhibited in the church.

In 1844, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc drew up a restoration estimate; the work was carried out from 1860 under the direction of Maurice Ouradou , with the Beaune architect Alphonse Forest as inspector of the works. The work focused particularly on the exteriors; the eight flying buttresses of the crossing tower were destroyed on this occasion. The crowning of the western parts was resumed in 1886, reinventing all of its sculpted ornaments in the process.