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Saint-Piat chapel entrance and staircase - 2/2

Many illustrators and photographers have taken an interest in this part of the ambulatory – where you can feel the special atmosphere.
In the first part, you can see the current layout. Now we’d like to show you how it looked in the 19th century.
 

Photograph – circa 1900. Access to the Saint Piat chapel is via a side staircase with a wrought-iron banister.
Color image – circa 1900. This photograph was widely distributed in belle époque Chartres.
English engraving – circa 1850/55. This may be the only document to show the neo-classical altar in the axial chapel (1791), before the neo-Gothic modifications made by the clergy (1863).
Lithograph – circa 1860. The axial chapel is now enclosed by a large hanging and serves as a place of exposition for the Blessed Sacrament – as would happen on several occasions in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Lithograph – circa 1860 by Isidore Laurent Deroy (1797-1886). Below the staircase, the processional canopy – still part of the cathedral’s furnishings.

Other views of the ambulatory:

Watercolor – by Scottish artist William Russel Flint (1880-1969). North side – St. Thomas canopy.
Etching – published in an American book c. 1970.
Brief overview of the renovation work on the interior plasterwork of the ambulatory.