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Rouen Cathedral
cathedral located in Seine-Maritime, in France
Key facts
- Location
- 3 rue Saint-Romain, 76000 Rouen , Normandy , France
- Denomination
- Catholic Church
- Website
- rouen .catholique .fr , www .cathedrale-rouen .net
- Status
- Cathedral
- Dedication
- Assumption of Mary
- Consecrated
- 1 October 1063 in the presence of William the Conqueror
- Functional status
- Yes
- Heritage designation
- Classée Monument Historique
- Architectural type
- church
- Style
- Gothic
- Archdiocese
- Rouen
- Archbishop
- Dominique Lebrun
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Rouen Cathedral (French: Cathédrale primatiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen) is a Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. It is the see of the Archbishop of Rouen, Primate of Normandy. It is famous for its three towers, each in a different style. The cathedral, built and rebuilt over a period of more than eight hundred years, has features from Early Gothic to late Flamboyant and Renaissance architecture. It also has a place in art history as the subject of a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, and in architecture history, as from 1876 to 1880 it was the tallest building in the world.
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1876 establishments in FranceBurial sites of the House of LancasterBurial sites of the House of NormandyBurial sites of the House of PlantagenetBurned buildings and structures in FranceChurches completed in 1876Former world's tallest buildingsRoman Catholic cathedrals in FranceRoman Catholic church buildings in Rouen