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Church of Saint-Pierre, Caen

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Until around the mid-19th century, the eastern end of the church faced onto a canal that was then covered and replaced by a road. Various artists and engravers recorded this relation of the church to the canal; for instance, the Scottish painter
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The construction of the present building took place between the early 13th and the 16th centuries. It was in this church that during the Middle Ages the main public ceremonies took place. For example, when
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between 1518 and 1545. The interior choir and the exterior apse display an architecture that embodies the transition from Gothic to Renaissance.
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Georges Huard, La Paroisse et l'Église Saint-Pierre de Caen, des origines au milieu du XVIe siècle, t. XXXV, Caen, Jouan, coll.
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Robert Patry, Une ville de province : Caen pendant la Révolution de 1789, Condé-sur-Noireau, Éditions Charles Corlet, 1983
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abjured the Protestant religion, putting an end to religious wars, it was in St Peter's Church that the
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was sung in the presence of the civil and religious representatives of the whole city. The
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For Roberts' paintings of St Pierre, see the list of his works recorded in Ballantine, J.
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of the church was destroyed on 9 July 1944 by a shell fired at German forces from the
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made several very similar views, one of which (dated to c. 1830) is in
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Notice no PA00111139 , base Mérimée, ministère français de la Culture.
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Saint-Pierre-sous-Caen, Saint-Pierre-du-Châtel, Saint-Pierre-en-Rive
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This church building is the subject of a classification as
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Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie
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Château de Caen
French
Roman Catholic
church
Caen
Normandy
France
Saint Peter
cathedral
Henri IV
Te Deum
spire
Royal Navy
HMS Rodney
Hector Sohier
church building
Temple of Reason
Culte de l'Être supreme
David Roberts
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Château de Caen
historical monument




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