John Sheldon's photos with the keyword: Rouen Cathedral

The workmen of Rouen Cathedral are depicted offering the building to one of its dedicatees, the Virgin Mary. Side chapel of Rouen Cathedral, Normandy, France. ISO 1000, hand held shutter speed 1/25 sec. Raw file processed in RawTherapee 3.1 and PhotoPlus X4.

ISO 1000 with a lot of dark tones, digital noise quite successfully subdued using RawTherapee 3.1 software.

Modern apartment buildings are brightly lit in the foreground, further back the towers of the medieval Eglise St Ouen rise above the old town. The Eglise was originaly part of a Benedictine monastery. In the cemetery attached to the Eglise, Joan of Arc (La Pucelle d'Orleans) was sentenced to be burned alive in 1431. The Eglise St Ouen rivals (and in my view surpasses) Rouen Cathedral for hight, light, sense of space and overall magnificence. Rouen has three huge and historic Christian church buildings to look after - St Ouen, the Cathedral, and St Maclou; a tall order for any city.

Rouen viewed from Côte Saint Catherine. The towers of Rouen Cathedral can be seen, and also the lesser structure of St Maclou's church.