Lille Cathedral, or Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille, was overseen by a commission formed in 1853 by Charles Kolb-Bernard and Charles Bernard, vicar general at Cambrai, to create a church that would become a cathedral for a new diocese. Charles Leroy took over the project after objections to awarding it to the English prize-winners. The first stone was laid in 1854.
The infobox lists Neo-Gothic, and the text calls it Gothic Revival. Building ran in stages from 1856 to 1975, and the infobox gives completion in 1999, when Pierre-Louis Carlier and engineer Peter Rice designed the modern facade. The article names no materials or dimensions.
Pope Pius X made it a minor basilica in 1904. The Diocese of Lille was created in 1913 with the basilica as its cathedral, and it became a metropolitan cathedral in 2008. It is a national monument. The article gives no hours.
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