Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Roubaix, Nord, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. HN 47) : inscription par arrêté du 3 juin 2014
- Protection dates
- 2014/06/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1888
- Architect or builder
- Dupire-Deschamps Auguste (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- 4 rue Nicolas-Poussin
- Commune
- Roubaix
- Département
- Nord
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 50.67942, 3.17886
- Mérimée reference
- PA59000188
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
A lorigine conçue comme une initiative privée, la construction de léglise, entre 1888 et 1890, accompagnera lémergence du quartier le plus cossu de Roubaix et, plus généralement , lurbanisation effrénée de la ville, à cette période. Son style associe les références à lart gothique et oriental ainsi quà la construction industrielle de lépoque (cheminées dusine, aspect médiévalisant des manufactures) témoignant du goût éclectique et des théories du rationalisme architectural prévalant à la fin du 19ème siècle.
English translation
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History
Originally conceived as a private initiative, the construction of the church, between 1888 and 1890, accompanied the emergence of the most affluent district of Roubaix and, more generally, the unbridled urbanisation of the city at that period. Its style combines references to Gothic and Oriental art as well as to industrial construction of the era (factory chimneys, medievalising appearance of manufactures) testifying to the eclectic taste and theories of architectural rationalism prevailing at the end of the 19th century.
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