Église Saint-Clodoald, Parish church in Saint-Cloud, France.
Église Saint-Clodoald is a Romano-Gothic parish church in Saint-Cloud, rebuilt between April 1861 and May 1863 by architect Pierre-Félix Delarue. Its beige and light-brown masonry body has repeated vertical supports along the side, while a high tower on the right carries arched openings, two round clock faces, a circular rose window and a pointed spire. Inside, round stone pillars support pointed arches above rows of dark wooden pews, and a carved wooden pulpit stands on the right.
A chapel stood here around 550 when Saint Clodoald arrived. The church of the 10th and 11th centuries, enlarged and altered many times, was rebuilt between April 1861 and May 1863 by the architect Pierre-Félix Delarue. The present Romano-Gothic building has been inscribed as a monument historique since 1995.
The parish is named after Saint Clodoald, the 6th-century hermit who gave the town its name; a chapel is said to have stood here around 550 when he arrived. On 30 July 1109 a procession from Bagneux brought a relic of the True Cross here before it continued to Notre-Dame de Paris.
The church stands on the Place Charles de Gaulle in central Saint-Cloud, a short walk from the Pont de Saint-Cloud and the town's shops. The main entrance is the large arched portal at the base of the tower, on the right of the facade. The nave is entered from a central stone aisle between rows of dark wooden pews, so the length of the building can be read at a glance from the doorway.
The gallery organ is a Cavaillé-Coll instrument from 1854, later restored by Pascal Quoirin. Look for it on the tribune, above the nave, rather than at floor level. Its survival makes it one of the church's oldest fittings, predating the 1899 pulpit by Ernest Guilbert.
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