Explorer Arras

Arras Cathedral is the former abbey church of Saint-Vaast, a classical building designed by Pierre Contant d'Ivry, begun in the 18th century and completed in the 1830s. It replaced the Gothic cathedral demolished after the Revolution and became the cathedral in 1804. Shelled in 1917 and rebuilt afterwards, it stands above a broad flight of steps beside the Musée des Beaux-Arts.

The Arras Memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with sculpture by Sir William Reid Dick, records the names of about 35,000 soldiers of the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died around Arras between 1916 and August 1918 with no known grave. It stands in the Faubourg d'Amiens British Cemetery beside the Arras Flying Services Memorial, both unveiled in 1932.