The highest vault in the world is found in the Catherdral of Beauvais in France. Celebrated in Ken Follet's epic novel The Pillars of the Earth set in England but having a master builder, Jack who studied how Beauvais Catherdral was being built to skill himself for building a catherdral in England.
Beauvais Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais) is an incomplete cathedral located in Beauvais in northern France. It is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis. It is, in some respects the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture, and consists only of a transept (sixteenth-century) and choir with apse and seven polygonal apsidal chapels (thirteenth century), which are reached by an ambulatory. The small Romanesque church of the 10th century known as the Basse Œuvre, much restored, still occupies the site destined for the nave.
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