Église Saint-Coeur-de-Marie, Roman Catholic church in La Cité-Limoilou, Quebec City, Canada
Église Saint-Coeur-de-Marie is a church building in La Cité-Limoilou featuring a bell tower with Byzantine architectural influences completed in the early 1920s. Its facades display large windowed arcades that create a distinctive rhythm across the exterior walls at 530 Grande Allée Est.
Construction occurred between 1919 and 1921 based on designs adapted from a church in Rennes, France, by architect Ludger Robitaille. This project demonstrates how European architectural traditions shaped early religious buildings in Quebec during the 20th century.
The parish was carved out of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Notre-Dame de Québec on 3 May 1918 and run by Eudist Fathers, who entrusted its spiritual direction to them. The first mass was celebrated on 25 December 1920. The church was deconsecrated in 1997, sold, and demolished in 2019; an 18-storey residential tower could rise on the site.
The church was demolished in 2019, so nothing of the building remains at 530 Grande Allée Est; a 6-foot wall had been put up around it that May because of its deterioration. An 18-storey residential tower was proposed for the site. Check the address rather than looking for a bell tower.
The vaults inside the nave rest on massive pillars constructed using an ancient European technique of three layers of chevron-patterned bricks bonded with mortar. This traditional building method brought Old World craftsmanship to bear on the structural challenges of early 20th-century Quebec construction.
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