Church of Saint-Sulpice
— — the hour the south tower outlasts the north.
Not only on a wall.
“The second-largest church in Paris, after Notre-Dame. Two west towers that do not match: the south one finished to Servandoni's plan, the north one raised later and never quite crowned. Inside, three Delacroix murals in the first chapel on the right, and a brass meridian line that runs across the floor to a small marble obelisk. A place people come to sit. The organ plays on Sunday mornings. — from the studio
Church of Saint-Sulpice, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The second-largest church in Paris after Notre-Dame, on the Left Bank in the sixth arrondissement. Construction began in 1646 on the site of a Romanesque parish and continued in stages until the 1870s. The nave runs about 113 metres long with vaults 33 metres high. Daniel Gittard set the plan; Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni won a competition in 1732 to finish the facade, working in an Italianate manner with two flanking towers above a deep loggia of paired columns.
The two west towers do not match. Servandoni's south tower was completed at roughly 68 metres; the north tower, raised later by Jean Chalgrin in the 1770s, reached about 73 metres and was never finished to a corresponding crown. The asymmetry is the first thing a visitor notices from Place Saint-Sulpice. The facade itself, in pale Parisian limestone, was largely undamaged in the Revolution and survives much as Servandoni left it, columned in two superimposed orders above the broad steps and the Visconti fountain.
Open daily, with no admission fee. The first chapel on the right inside the entrance holds three murals Eugène Delacroix completed in 1861, including Jacob Wrestling with the Angel and Heliodorus Driven from the Temple. The Cavaillé-Coll organ, installed in 1862 with 102 stops, is among the largest in France and is heard at the free recital that follows the 10:30 Sunday Mass. A brass meridian line set into the floor runs north from the south transept to a small marble obelisk.