# Interior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCHITECT, French]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary In Poitiers, a town that had several Romanesque churches possessing an ambulatory, the cathedral remains a cuboid in which the nave and its two side aisles end in the east at the same height. Three parallel, extremely shallow apses are cut into the straight continuous east wall, so that not only the are ambulatory and radiating chapels missing but there is no real hint of a chevet. Instead, the dominant impression, inside and outside, is of great unity of structure and space, especially as it is a hall church, its nave and side aisles being of approximately equal height. Probably begun as early as the 1150s, construction was advanced in 1162 by an endowment from the English king Henry II and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/zzzarchi/12c/2/2/poitiers.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">ground plan</a> of the Cathedral of Poitiers. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Bird's eye view]() - [Burial lantern]() - [Castle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()