Église Saint-Vincent de Rouen, Gothic church ruins in Rouen, France.
Église Saint-Vincent is a ruined Gothic church in Rouen, of which only the south portal of the transept and a small adjoining wall section remain. The portal, built in 1515, stands on a low stone base with steps and shows a tall pointed arch above a smaller flat-topped opening, with weathered carved details and faint traces of text on the upper right.
A parish is attested from 1169, near the Seine quays and facing the Hôtel de la Vicomté. The nave was built in the mid-15th century, the crossing enlarged in the 1470s, and the choir rebuilt between 1512 and 1528. A square lantern tower followed around 1669, then a north side aisle in the 18th century. Allied bombs destroyed the church on 31 May 1944; the rue du Général-Giraud was cut through the site in the 1950s.
The parish is recorded from 1169 and took its name, Saint-Vincent-sur-Rive, from the nearby Seine quays. Its stained glass, made around 1525 by the workshop of Jean and Engrand Le Prince of Beauvais, was removed in 1939 and stored in Niort; after the war one panel went to the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles and eight to Notre-Dame cathedral.
The surviving south portal of the transept stands at the foot of Rue Jeanne-d'Arc, near the former Rue de la Vicomté and Rue Saint-Vincent. The fragment is outdoors and can be viewed from the street at any time; the Rue du Général-Giraud was cut through the church's former site in the 1950s.
The south portal of the transept, built in 1515 along the old rue Haranguerie, is all that stands of the church; the rest of its walls survived the war but were judged too damaged to rebuild in 1945. The rue du Général-Giraud was cut through the site in the 1950s.
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