1857 Girardet print CHURCH OF ST. OUEN, ROUEN, FRANCE, #16

Description: BellesEglises_16 1857 Girardet print CHURCH OF ST. OUEN, ROUEN, FRANCE, #16 Nice view titled Saint-Ouen de Rouen, from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression, approx. size is 24 x 15 cm, approx. image size is 15 x 10 cm. From J.-J. Bourasse, Les plus belles eglises du monde, Mame, Tours, 1857. Church of St. Ouen, Rouen The Church of St. Ouen, Rouen is a large Gothic church, famous for both its architecture and its large, unaltered Cavaillé-Coll organ, which Charles-Marie Widor described as "a Michelangelo of an organ". Built on a similar scale to nearby Rouen Cathedral, it is, along with church of Saint Maclou, one of the principal Gothic monuments of Rouen. The Abbey The church was originally built as the abbey church of Saint Ouen for the Benedictine Order, beginning in 1318 and interrupted by the Hundred Years' War, and completed in the 15th century in the rayonnant style. The foundation of St. Ouen's Abbey has been variously credited, among others, to Clothair I and to St. Clothilda, but evidence is scanty. It was dedicated at first to St. Peter when the body of St. Ouen, Archbishop of Rouen (d. 678), was buried there; the name of St. Peter and St. Ouen became common and finally St. Ouen only. The history of the abbey, on record from the 1000, is unremarkable; a list of abbots is in Gallia Christiana XI, 140. In 1660 the monastery was united to the Congregation of St. Maur, and when suppressed, in 1794, the community numbered twenty-four. The abbey building itself was vacated by the time of the French Revolution and was subsequently occupied by the Town Hall of Rouen.

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