Bayeux Cathedral

cathedral located in Calvados, in France

Bayeux Cathedral, also called the Cathedral of Our Lady of Bayeux (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux), is a cathedral. It is in Bayeux, in Normandy. The current cathedral was consecrated on July 14, 1077. It is part of a larger complex, a bishop's palace. It was built as a replacement for an earlier church which dated from the Merovingian era. It was here that Harold Godwinson swore an oath[1] that later led to the Norman Conquest.

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  1. Gameson, Richard (1997). The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-85115-664-4.