Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

@Fearg wrote:

… and here is a French neo gothic rose. Basilica of Sainte Clothilde – Paris, like Monaghan, internally this is mostly blocked by the organ (apparently some of the inspiration for St Saviours came from here):

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When you say obscured, you sure mean it: Take a look here

http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/thumbnails/paris_clothildecavcoll1lg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/0627/&h=170&w=170&sz=10&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=12Yq5kE2y7x0CM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dst%2Bclothilde%2Bparis%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

St. Clotilde is important for it was, as far as memory serves me, the first of the Neo Gothic churches to be build in Paris and highly praised by A.N. Didron.

Yes, it was the first Neo-Gothic church built in Paris. Here is a potted history:
http://www.uquebec.ca/musique/orgues/france/sclothildep.html

And here are some further pictures of the interior. It resembles St. Nicolas in Nantes -the first Neo-Gothic church built in France. Unfortunately, the sancturay has been gotten to before the Beaux Arts could classify it!

http://ssa.paris.online.fr/pages/7thStClotilde.htm