Condom Cathedral, Gothic cathedral in Condom, France.
Saint-Pierre Cathedral is a former cathedral in Condom, Gers, built from 1506 to 1531 in Southern French Gothic style. Its west front has a 40-metre square tower with three narrow arched openings, a clock face and a rose window; the central portal's tympanum shows the Four Evangelists' symbols. The south nave door, in Flamboyant Gothic style, holds 24 small statues in the niches of its archivolt.
Construction began in 1506 on a site where an earlier church had stood before being demolished in 1368. After the bell tower collapsed, the building went through a major reconstruction that gave it its current appearance.
The west portal carries carved figures of the Four Evangelists in its tympanum, visible to anyone who stops to look up at the entrance. Inside the choir vault, stone bosses show musical angels that reward a slow upward glance.
The cathedral stands on a hill in central Condom, close to the Baïse River, and is easy to reach on foot from the surrounding streets. It also sits along one of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela, so walkers often pass through on their way south.
The 16th-century pulpit keeps its carved stone canopy, or baldaquin, from the first building phase. The choir vault bosses show angel musicians, recalling the cathedral's 16th-century liturgy and its reconstructed organ at the west end.
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