Architect(s) of the Chartres Cathedral?
I just need the name or names of the architects who worked on the chartres cathedral,
Architect: unknown
Location: Chartres, France
Date: 1194 to 1260
2nd Major Church on the site was built under the supervision of Bishop Fulbert and later under the direction of Geoffroy de Lèves but neither man was an architect:
-->The existing cathedral at Chartres is one of several French Gothic masterpieces built because fire had destroyed its predecessors. After the first cathedral of any great substance burnt down in 1020 (other prior churches on the site had also disappeared in smoke), a glorious new Romanesque basilica, which included a massive crypt, was built under the direction of Bishop Fulbert and later under the direction of Geoffroy de Lèves. Though neither man was an architect.
In 1194 when the building went down in flames yet again, the 1st architect was commissioned to design the cathedral, but his name is lost to us. Since the rebuild, the cathedral has been maintained extremely well. It looks almost the same as it did when it was first re-built.