Saint-Hilaire church

The church is situated on the "Place Carnot" in the heart of the town.

The "Fausse Porte" street has the particularity of passing under the chancel of the religious edifice, through a beautiful stone archway.
You may not be familiar with Victor Hugo's text written in 1838 in which he gently mocks the bell tower of the Saint-Hilaire church:
"The brave architect took a square priest's or lawyer's cap. On this square cap, he has built an upside down salad bowl; on the bottom of this bowl, which has become a platform, he has placed a sugar bowl, a bottle on the sugar bowl, a bottle, on the bottle, a sun fitted into the neck by the lower vertical beam; and finally, on the sun, a rooster skewered in the upper vertical beam. Assuming that it took him one day to come up with each of these ideas, he will have rested on the seventh day. This artist must have been Flemish".
The stained glass windows of the Saint-Hilaire church :
The association of the friends of the religious heritage of Givet has invested in the rehabilitation of the interior of the Saint-Hilaire church of Givet with the project of equipping it with 18 new stained glass windows of contemporary style.
The stained glass windows were created by the artist Catherine Roch from Hillerin and realized by the master glass workshop Simon Marq from Reims.

18 stained glass windows are to be installed, each 5m high and 2m30 wide. (8 in the choir and 10 in the nave).

Already installed in the choir : "The Baptism" (right side) - "The Confirmation" (left side)
In the nave : "Mary, mother of humanity" - "The Creation - "Saint-Hilaire" (left side) - “Nativity - "Cross"


Free access - Rue Saint-Hilaire - left bank