Description
Saint-Séverin is a Flamboyant Gothic church in the Latin Quarter of Paris, on lively Rue Saint-Séverin. Once the parish of the University of Paris students, it is one of the oldest churches still standing on the Left Bank.
The masterpiece is behind the altar: a double ambulatory where a twisting central pillar and the columns around it rise like stone palm trees, their branches spreading into the vaults. Around it glow eight abstract stained-glass windows by Jean Bazaine, made between 1964 and 1970 on the theme of the seven sacraments, in blues and reds.
The bell tower holds the oldest bell in Paris, cast in 1412. On the south side, around a small garden, is the old charnel house, the only one left in the city.
François Mitterrand, the future president, married Danielle Gouze here in October 1944, not long after the liberation of Paris.
The masterpiece is behind the altar: a double ambulatory where a twisting central pillar and the columns around it rise like stone palm trees, their branches spreading into the vaults. Around it glow eight abstract stained-glass windows by Jean Bazaine, made between 1964 and 1970 on the theme of the seven sacraments, in blues and reds.
The bell tower holds the oldest bell in Paris, cast in 1412. On the south side, around a small garden, is the old charnel house, the only one left in the city.
François Mitterrand, the future president, married Danielle Gouze here in October 1944, not long after the liberation of Paris.