Notre-Dame de

Clignancourt

2, place Jules Joffrin, 75018 Paris

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Until the Second Empire came to power, Clignancourt was only a small country village north of Paris. For worship, its inhabitants belonged to the church of Saint-Pierre de Montmartre. In 1853, the villagers asked for permission to build a new church, and this was approved in 1858 by the Paris City Council. The foundation stone was laid in May 1859. The building, in a neo-Romanesque style, was entrusted to the architect Paul-Eugène Lequeux (1806–1873). In 1863, an imperial decree created the new parish, whose church is dedicated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Clignancourt. During the Commune, the church was sacked. Although it suffers from a slight lack of light, the church has very beautiful paintings by renowned artists (Félix- Joseph Barrias, Michel Dumas, Romain Cazes). Its choir, decorated with wall paintings and figurative stained glass, has a clear artistic warmth, matched by a very beautiful axial Lady Chapel. The nave is decorated with narrative stained glass in an Art Deco style.

C3 The organ was built by Merklin in 1893. In 1970, Beuchet-Debierre extended the organ and carried out a re-voicing of the piping (entrusted to J. Picaud). On this occasion, new Plein Jeu stops were added. In 1988, additional work was carried out by Jacques Barbéris and the Parisian Manufacture des Grandes Organs with the aim of improving the instrument that suffered from heating. In 1990, Dargassies carried out a complete restoration that corrected the 1970 re-voicing. Seven new stops were added: Doublette 2' at GO, Fourniture/Cymbal at GO; Flûte harmonique 8', Flûte octaviante4', Octavin 2' and Carillon III at the Swell. In 2010, Dargassies performed an overhaul.