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Saint-Ouen Abbey, Rouen

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Abbaye Saint Ouen de Rouen as seen from Gros Horloge 140215 3
Abbaye Saint Ouen de Rouen as seen from Gros Horloge 140215 3

Saint-Ouen Abbey, (French: Abbaye Saint-Ouen de Rouen) is a large Gothic Catholic church and former Benedictine monastic church in Rouen. It is named for Audoin (French: Ouen, English: Owen), 7th-century bishop of Rouen in modern Normandy, France. The church's name is sometimes anglicized as St Owen's. Built on a similar scale to nearby Rouen Cathedral, the abbey is famous for both its architecture and its large, unaltered Cavaillé-Coll organ, which was described by Charles-Marie Widor as "a Michelangelo of an organ". With the cathedral and the Church of Saint-Maclou, Saint-Ouen is one of the principal French Gothic monuments of the city.

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Saint-Ouen Abbey, Rouen
Place du Général de Gaulle, Rouen Quartier Saint-Marc / Croix de Pierre / Saint-Nicaise

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Abbatiale Saint-Ouen

Place du Général de Gaulle
76000 Rouen, Quartier Saint-Marc / Croix de Pierre / Saint-Nicaise
Normandy, France
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