Angoulême - Cathedral of St Pierre

Angoulême's finest building is the Cathedral of St-Pierre (1105-1128, restored about 1650, altered by Abadie around 1875), which, like St-Front in Périgueux and Notre-Dame in Poitiers, shows a mingling of Romanesque and Byzantine styles. The west front has rich sculptural decoration, with more than 70 figures in representations of the Ascension and the Last Judgment. The cruciform interior has four domes.