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The Abbatiale Saint-Ouen grew from a Benedictine monastery founded around the year 750 that became one of the richest and most powerful in Normandy. Flush with wealth and ambition, its abbots set out to build a church grand enough to outshine the archbishop's cathedral just down the hill. Work on the present Gothic church began in 1318 and continued, through wars and epidemics, until it was completed in 1537. The result stretches an astonishing one hundred and thirty seven metres in length, with stone vaults rising thirty three metres, taller than the nave of Rouen's own cathedral. Inside, slender columns, great walls of medieval stained glass, and a crowning lantern tower fill the space with light. The church also holds one of the world's greatest pipe organs, built in 1890 by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll and preserved almost unaltered, which the composer Charles-Marie Widor called a Michelangelo of an organ.
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- 750 year — A Benedictine abbey was founded here, growing into one of the richest in Normandy
- 1890 year — Aristide Cavaillé-Coll built the celebrated four manual pipe organ
- 137 metres — The church stretches this long, with vaults taller than the cathedral's nave
📍 Place du Général de Gaulle, 76000, Rouen