Metz Cathedral - Interior

The interior Metz Cathedral has an overwhelming effect, with its great height (42m/140ft) and width and its huge areas of beautiful stained glass (14th century in the rose window on the west front, 16th century in the choir and transepts). In the south aisle are the Chapelle Notre-Dame or du Mont-Carmel, once the choir of the older church of Notre-Dame-la-Ronde, and the Chapelle du St-Sacrement or des Evêques, with stained glass by Jacques Villon (1957). In the towers are abstract windows by R. Bissière (1959). In the aisles are the remains of wall-mounted tombs. In the north transept and the ambulatory (on left) are three windows by Marc Chagall (1960). In the choir (on left) is a marble bishop's throne of the Merovingian period. The church treasury contains some valuable items, but was originally much richer.