Quick facts for kids Rouen Cathedral |
Cathedral of Notre Dame |
French: Cathédrale primatiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen |
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Location |
3 rue Saint-Romain
76000 Rouen, Normandy
France |
Denomination |
Catholic Church |
Website |
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History |
Status |
Cathedral |
Dedication |
Our Lady of Rouen |
Consecrated |
1 October 1063 in the presence of William the Conqueror |
Relics held |
Saint Romain |
Architecture |
Functional status |
Active |
Heritage designation |
Classée Monument Historique |
Designated |
1862 |
Architectural type |
church |
Style |
Gothic |
Groundbreaking |
1030 |
Completed |
1880 |
Specifications |
Number of towers |
2 |
Number of spires |
2 |
Bells |
70 by Paccard (64 in the Saint-Romain Tower and 6 in the Butter Tower). It is the heaviest peal of bells in France (the overall weight of the cathedral's 64-bell carillon reckons at 36 tons). |
Administration |
Archdiocese |
Rouen |
Rouen Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen) is a Gothic cathedral in Rouen, in Normandy, northwestern France.
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Images for kids
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the west front as it appeared in the 12th century
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Saint Romaine tower on June 1, 1944, hit by an Allied bomb just before D-Day
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Cardinal Georges d'Amboise following Louis XII of France (1503)
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Rouen and the Cathedral in 1525, from the "Livre des Fontaines" by Jacques Le Lieur.
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The cathedral in 1822 with the Renaissance spire
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The portals and sculpture galleries
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Tympanum of the portal of Notre-Dame
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Details of the sculpture in the Voussures over the Portal of Notre-Dame
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Detail of the portal of St. Stephen
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Detail of the Portal of Saint John
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Sculpture of Apostles on the North Buttress
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Top of the Saint-Romain tower
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Capital of a column of the Saint-Romain tower
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Sculpture on the Butter Tower
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The spire and clochetons, seen from the Rouen Opera
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Sculpture and tourelles on the northwest front
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Archbishops and apostles on the west front
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An apostle on the northwest front
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An angel musician on the northwest front
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Flying buttresses on the north side reach over the roof of the collateral aisle to support the upper walls of the nave
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The buttresses and decoration of the roofline of the nave
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Sculpted medallions in the embrasures of the Portail des Librairies (north side)
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The Portail des Librairies (north side)
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Column-statue of Saint Romain in the portal
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Details of the medallions around the portal- Book of Genesis and fantastic creatures
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South transept - Portal of La Calende
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The tympanum of the Portal of La Calende - the life of Christ
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Detail of the voussures and the buttress
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The Chevet, or east end of the cathedral, topped with a gilded statue of the Virgin Mary.
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Plan of the cathedral (west front and nave to left, transept, choir and apse and Virgin Mary Chapel to right)
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The interior, looking from west to east toward the choir
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The nave, looking toward the west front
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The south collateral aisle
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Interior wall of the north transept, with rose window
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the interior of the lantern tower over the transept
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Interior of the south transept, with rose window
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15th-century stairway to the medieval library, in the northwest corner of the transept
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The Choir, with the altar in the foreground
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The High Altar, with 18th-century statue of Christ and kneeling angels
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The choir stalls (15th c.)
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Detail of a misericorde on a choir stall- a money-changer
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Tomb of Rollo, first Duke of Normandy (died 930)
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Statue Notre-Dame du Vœu by Félix Lecomte (1777) in the Chapel Sainte-Marguerite (south side)
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Statue of Saint Cecile by Clodion (1777) in the Chapel Saint-Nicolas (north side)
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Altar and retable in Chapel of Saint-Etienne-de-la-Grande- Eglise
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Painted wood panels depicting the life of Saint Brice in the Chapel of Sainte-Catherine (17th c.)
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Altar and antependium of the Chapel of Sainte-Catherine
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Retable in Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
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Retable in the Chapelle des Fonts (17th c.)
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Tomb of the two Cardinals d'Amboise
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Tomb of Louis and Pierre de Brézé
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Window of the Passion, disambulatory, Bay 10 (13th c.) (multiple-click to see details)
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Scene from the Window of the Passion- the Last Supper (Bay 10, 13th century)
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Detail of the Window of the Passion; a butcher, sponsors of the window, at work (13th c.)
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Window of Saint Joseph, Bay 9. (13th c.) The glass is signed by the artist on the band in front of the Saint: "Clement- glassmaker of Chartres"
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Saint Severus,Chapel of Saint Severus, Bay 51 (13th century)
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Window of Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier, Bay 23, disambulatory (13th century)
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Window of Saint-Julien-L'Hospitalier, depicting fish-merchants, the sponsor of the window (Bay 23)
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Craftsmen planning and building Rouen Cathedral, Chapel of Saint-Jean-de-la-Nef (13th c.) (Bay 53)
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Saint Ansbert, (Bay 5 -14th c.)
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Detail of Bay 32, in the South Transept (14th c.)
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Detail of Pentecost window, Bay 36, South transept (mid-14th century)
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Detail of "Holy Saints at the Tomb" by Guillaume Barbe, Bay 53 Chapel of Saint-Jean-de-la-Nef (15th c.)
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Bay 44, Chapel of St. Catherine
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Rose window of the portal of libraries, north transept (15th c.)
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Detail of the rose of the portal of libraries (15th c.)
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16th-century window in the Chapel of Saint-Joseph
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Detail of the Chapel of Saint-Joseph window
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Archbishop Saint-Romain of Rouen slays the Gargoyle (Bay 28)
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Chapel of St. Leonard, Bay 50 (20th century)
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Detail of window in Chapel of Saint-Léonard - Noah's ark (20th century)
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Detail of window in Chapel of Saint-Léonard - a modern angel (20th century)
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Detail of Chapel of Saint-Joan-of-Arc window, south transept 20th century)
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Joan of Arc window, Bay 26, Chapel of Saint-Joan-of-Arc (20th c.)
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The grand organ, inside the west front
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Decoration of the grand organ
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Sculpture on the grand organ
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The Châsse des Saints-Pontiffs (19th c.)
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Detail of The Châsse des Saints-Pontiffs
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The Capa Magna of the Archbishop
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The crypt of the Cathedral
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The crypt, with fragments of Romanesque columns
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"West Facade, Sunlight" (1892) (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
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Rouen Cathedral, Full Sunlight, by Claude Monet, in 1894 (Musée d'Orsay)
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La Cathédrale de Rouen by Claude Monet in 1893 (Musée d'Orsay)
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"Cathedral at sunset" (Pushkin Museum)
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"Morning Light" (1894) (Getty Center)
See also
In Spanish: Catedral de Ruan para niños