XNUMXth century religious building in a classic style, in local blue stone.
To discover: the reliquary bust of St-Hilaire, the magnificent stalls in the Louis XIV style and its original bell tower cited by Victor Hugo.
To discover: the reliquary bust of St-Hilaire, the magnificent stalls in the Louis XIV style and its original bell tower cited by Victor Hugo.
Located on Place Carnot, in the heart of the city, Rue de la Fausse Porte has the particularity of passing under the choir of the religious building through a beautiful stone vault. You may not be familiar with Victor Hugo's text written in 1838 in which he gently mocks the bell tower of the Saint-Hilaire church: "The brave architect took a square priest's or lawyer's cap. On this square cap, he built an upside-down salad bowl; on the bottom of this salad bowl, which had become a platform, he placed a sugar bowl, on the sugar bowl, a bottle, on the bottle, a sun fitted into the neck by the lower vertical ray; and finally, on the sun, a rooster skewered in the upper vertical ray. Assuming that it took him a day to find each of these ideas, he would have rested on the seventh day. This artist must have been Flemish." The stained-glass windows of the Saint-Hilaire church: The association of friends of Givetois religious heritage has invested in the rehabilitation of the interior of the Saint-Hilaire church in Givet with the project of equipping it with 18 new contemporary-style stained-glass windows. The stained-glass windows were created by the artist-painter Catherine Roch de Hillerin and produced by the Simon Marcq master glassmaker workshop in Reims. 18 stained-glass windows are to be installed, each measuring 5m in height and 2m30 in width. (8 in the choir and 10 in the nave). Already installed in the choir: "The Baptism" (right side) - "The Confirmation" (left side) In the nave: "Mary, mother of humanity" - "The Creation" - "Saint-Hilaire (left side) - "Nativity" - "Cross" Next stained-glass windows: "The Exile", "Liberation" and "Resurrection". Please note: Free access - Rue Saint-Hilaire - Left bank.
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