Jonathan Meades

What next for Notre Dame?

Let Lord Foster – the man behind the greatest gothic structure of the past century – restore the roof

issue 27 April 2019

Notre Dame is only important from a Shakespeare’s-birthplace point of view. Architecturally it is a nullity beside the cathedrals of Beauvais and Laon, Albi and Marseille, Rouen and Clermont-Ferrand (a sinister marvel of black tufa).

The ashes of the cathedral are now the site of a proxy struggle between some of the greatest fortunes on the planet.

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