Saint-Omer, ville d'art et d'histoire...
Les Monuments - Aéroclub de Saint-Omer - L'USSO
		The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Structure EGLISE-HALL including/understanding three longitudinal vessels, the first nave was built in XIIIe, the others in XIVe, of the same height. The tower was built in XVe. The tower porch is a building of square plan flanked of buttresses. The punt form is girded of a balustrade with pinnacles of angle. The arrow, restored in XVIIe century, was rebatie into 1891. - Height of the surmounted tower of the arrow: 52 Mr. - Length of the nave: 54 m. History First construction in XIè century of a church bearing the name of the Holy Sepulchre, with the participation of three knights; Guillaume, Hugues and Geoffroy of the family of SAINT-OMER, incomes of the crusades (1095 - 1270). The memory of these knights is in the first stained glass of the chorus on the right. The current church was devoted into 1387. During the Revolution, the church was closed and réouverte Ier Mars 1794 to become the temple of the Reason, then temple To be it Supreme. It was the first with being thereafter réouverte with the catholic worship. Translation of the Latin inscription on the external gate out of wooden: " This place is worthy between all. It is really here the house of God and the gate of the Sky. " Furniture The large gate interior, decorated garlands of carved flowers and attributes sacerdotal and episcopal, would come from the church of the Saint-Bertin abbey. The maitre furnace bridge is remarkable. Very beautiful stained glasses of XIXe century. The organ case goes back to 1821. From 1785, the cemetery which surrounded the church was transferred out of the ramparts of the city.