[31] Archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir saved many of the monuments by claiming them as artworks for his Museum of French Monuments.

Basilique : 18 04 1914 (J.O.). Above the doorways, the central tympanum was carved with Christ in Majesty displaying his wounds with the dead emerging from their tombs below. The ancient monarchs were removed in August 1793 to celebrate the revolutionary Festival of Reunion, then the Bourbon and Valois monarchs were removed to celebrate the execution of Marie Antoinette in October 1793. The first, who was responsible for the initial work at the western end, favoured conventional Romanesque capitals and moulding profiles with rich and individualised detailing.
Although known as the "Basilica of St Denis", the cathedral has not been granted the title of Minor Basilica by the Vatican. [19] The Abbey of St Denis thus became the prototype for further building in the royal domain of northern France. Construite au début du XIIIe siècle, la flèche de Saint-Denis fut considérée, en son temps, comme un des ouvrages les plus spectaculaires d'Île-de-France.

The upper facades of the two much-enlarged transepts were filled with two spectacular 12m-wide rose windows. [1] Around 475 St. Genevieve purchased some land and built Saint-Denys de la Chapelle.

[26], In the early 1840s, cracks appeared in the north tower's masonry following several extreme weather events. Nécropole, elle possède plus de 70 statues gisantes et priantes.
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Napoleon Bonaparte reopened the church in 1806, but left the royal remains in their mass graves. Pierre Pincemaille, sole titular organist for 30 years (between 1987 and 2018), held many recitals (between 1989 and 1995, then between 2014 and 2017), and recorded eight CDs using this instrument. En 1966, à la création du diocèse de la Seine-Saint-Denis, la basilique devient cathédrale. The remaining bones from 158 bodies were collected into an ossuary in the crypt of the church, behind marble plates bearing their names.

Having been consecrated by Christ, the fabric of the building was itself regarded as sacred. The basilica retains stained glass of many periods (although most of the panels from Suger's time have been removed for long-term conservation and replaced with photographic transparencies), including exceptional modern glass, and a set of 12 misericords. Although small circular windows (oculi) within triangular tympana were common on the west facades of Italian Romanesque churches, this was probably the first example of a rose window within a square frame, which was to become a dominant feature of the Gothic facades of northern France (soon to be imitated at Chartres Cathedral and many others).

The corpse of King Louis VII, who had been buried at Barbeau Abbey and whose tomb had not been touched by the revolutionaries, was brought to Saint-Denis and buried in the crypt.

[3] The basilica's 13th-century nave is the prototype for the Rayonnant Gothic style, and provided an architectural model for many medieval cathedrals and abbeys of northern France, Germany, England and a great many other countries.