Verdun - Cathedral

In Verdun, to the south of the Victory Monument, on the site of an earlier church burned down in 1047, is the Cathedral of Notre- Dame, in the Romanesque style of the Rhineland, with two transepts and two apses. Consecrated in 1147, it was much altered in the 14th C. and again in 1755. It has a fine 12th C. crypt and a Late Gothic cloister (16th C.). On the north side of the church is the beautiful Lion Doorway (12th C.), with a sumptuously decorated tympanum.

Immediately adjoining the cathedral is the Bishop's Palace (16th C.), with a cloister; the Palace now houses the Municipal Library.