Lillers, FR

Collégiale Saint-Omer, Lillers

Collégiale Saint-Omer, the Romanesque church, built 900 years ago has massive exterior architecture which giving way to an interior architecture which is light and harmonious.

About this building

As a local legend goes, some drops of blood would have spilt out from the right thigh of the figure on this Holy Crucifix after a sacrilegious soldier struck it. Straight after the collegiate church became for centuries a reputed pilgrimage site thanks to this venerable relic. To mark the end of the long lasting restoration campaign after the First World War, this large stained-glass window in Art Deco style (by Lorin, based on a Magne drawing) was installed in the north transept, opposite tis matching piece dedicated to St. Roch.

Key Features

  • Architecture
  • Monuments
  • Interior features
  • Links to national heritage

Visitors information

  • Level access to the main areas
  • Car park at the building
  • Café within 500m

Other nearby buildings

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Church of Saint-Omer

The chapel Saint-Omer was built in 1230. In the 16th century, the body of the church was added, giving the buildings its current structure. The plan of the church is simple: a bell tower, a stone nave covered with a paneled vault, a choir, two chapels and a sacristy (seventeenth century). You can notice the cross vaulted transept ogives (sixteenth century) complex drawing.

Wikimedia Commons/Felouch Kotek

Church of Saint-Éloi-et-Saint-Martin

The church of Saint-Éloi-et-Saint-Martin is a Gothic-style church whose construction began in 1523 on a former church whose 13th-century bell tower has survived. The church was sacked during the Revolution and its 16th century stained glass windows were destroyed. They were rebuilt identically in the second half of the 19th century. Closed from 2000 to 2009 because of its dilapidated state, the church was restored and in 2009 it received its additional dedication to Saint Eloi.

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