The Saint-Honoré Church (1957-1961) of Amiens in art deco style in Amiens (Somme), France
Honoré lived in the sixth century, originally from Port-le-Grand, a village near Abbeville. He was bishop of Amiens. He is the patron saint of bakers, pastry cooks, millers, flour merchants etc. In the middle of the 19th century, a church was built on the site of the current church. It was placed under the patronage of Saint Honoré. The building was destroyed during the German bombings of May 19, 1940. After the Second World War, the art deco style church was rebuilt by the architects Paul Tournon and Marcel Gogois, between 1957 and 1961. The architect Paul Tournon, son-in-law of Edouard Branly, reused and partially modified the plan of the pontifical pavilion designed for the Universal Exhibition of 1937, adding a bell tower topped with a statue (bell tower planned in the original plans for the pavilion, but ultimately not built). In April 1982, a photographer, who looked at the statue with his telephoto lens, detected cracks and subsidence on the statue which adorned the top of the bell tower. The statue of Notre Dame de France was deposited and stored pending its restoration. It was transported in 1988 to Baillet-en-France to be reinstalled there, thus responding to a wish of Mgr Verdier, Archbishop of Paris between the two wars. Subsequently, a replica of the statue was reinstalled at the top of the bell tower.
Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: 2 Rue Dom-Bouquet, 80000 Amiens, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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