Saint-Omer, ville d'art et d'histoire...
Les Monuments - Aéroclub de Saint-Omer - L'USSO
		The Saint-Denis Church Structure This church offers outside a very beautiful specimen of the Gothic art of XIIIè century. It is made up of four levels. The three higher stages with four arcs in third not and posts on each one of its faces finish at the top by a full gallery. The height of this tower porch is 37 Mr. From 1389 to 1705, it was overcome by a superb arrow which was reversed in 1705. Its fall involved the ruin of the Western zone of the building. The nave and its sides were rebuilt at the beginning of XVIIIè century. According to the diagram of a church hall. The chorus dates from XVè century.
History The Saint-Denis parish was probably founded under the reign of Charlemagne. Parish échevinale, its ground closes again a quantity of burials of large the audomaroises families. (see the tombstones on the ground). Furniture One can admire there a Christ of the sculptor Of Broeucq and the rétable monumental of the chorus coming from the church of the Dominican ones. Y also appears a fragment of the monument of Guillaume Fillartre carried out by Andréa Della Robia. The enclosure is built with the site of the old cemetery, transferred out of the ramparts of the city in 1785. The Organ case was carried out by the Piette Brothers.