Chapelle de l'ancien grand séminaire

English translation

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History

In 1907, the Grand Seminary of Meaux moved into the buildings of the former Abbey of Chaâge divided up and sold in lots since the Revolution. In 1936, a project for the enlargement of the Grand Seminary resulted in the construction of the reinforced concrete building which houses the chapel. The architect Henri Faucheur was entrusted with its execution; he drew inspiration in particular from buildings constructed by the Benedictine architect Dom Bellot, specialised in the use of projecting brick. The painting of the choir is the work of George Desvallières. It is a painting "framed" executed on canvas marouflaged in a general tone of yellow and grey. The chapel is lit by a set of stained glass windows of very high quality executed in the workshop of Louis Barillet, in close collaboration with Jacques Le Chevallier and Théodore Hanssen. The furnishings were developed under the direction of Henri Faucheur by the Boulanger workshops in Meaux, which executed the stalls of the seminarians now hidden by library shelving, the chairs and liturgical armchairs, the doors of the chapel. The altar and tabernacle were designed by Henri Faucheur and executed by the marble works Lelu. After the departure of the Grand Seminary in 1960, the chapel was used as a library, the room in the basement as book storage and the seminarians' rooms situated above the chapel as classrooms for the Lycée Sainte-Marie. Its return to religious use could only enhance this exceptional and still intact set of religious art of the 1930s.