![Paul Bellot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Paul_Bellot.jpg)
Paul Louis Denis Bellot (7 June 1876 in
Paris
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– 5 July 1944 in
Montreal
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) was a French
monk
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and modern
architect
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.
Biography
He became an architect in 1900 having studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1902 he became a monk of
the Benedictines of Solesmes. These monks were in exile in England, and Bellot began building
Quarr Abbey
Quarr Abbey (French: ''Abbaye Notre-Dame de Quarr'') is a monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The name is pronounced as "Kwor" (rhyming with "for"). It belongs to the Catholi ...
on the
Isle of Wight
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.
In the
Netherlands
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Bellot designed
St. Paul's Abbey, Oosterhout, for the Order. He designed several churches in the Netherlands,
France
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,
Belgium
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,
Canada
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and
Portugal
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. Most of these are built largely of concrete or brick which were his preferred materials.
Bellot was a member of
L'Arche
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, an organisation whose goal it was to use modern materials and art for religious purposes. In
Canada
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, where he moved in 1937, he influenced several architects (i.e. Dom Claude-Marie Côté, also a Benedictine monk, and
Adrien Dufresne, a layperson) and his architectural influence became known as "Bellotism".
His ideas are expounded in ''Propos d'un bâtisseur du Bon Dieu'' which was published posthumously in 1949; it is based on lectures he gave in Canada in 1934.
[Willis, Peter (1996) ''Dom Paul Bellot, architect and monk, and the publication of "Propos d'un bâtisseur du Bon Dieu" 1949.'' Newcastle upon Tyne: Elysium Press ]
Chief works
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*
St. Paul's Abbey, Oosterhout, the Netherlands, 1906–1907
*
Quarr Abbey
Quarr Abbey (French: ''Abbaye Notre-Dame de Quarr'') is a monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The name is pronounced as "Kwor" (rhyming with "for"). It belongs to the Catholi ...
, Isle of Wight, 1907–1911
* At
Comines, the church of Saint Chrysolus was built from 1925 to 1929 in collaboration with
Maurice Storez.
* At
Audincourt
Audincourt () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
History
Audincourt belonged to the County of Montbéliard which became part of France in 1793, during the French Revolutionary Wars. ...
, the church of Notre-Dame de l'Immaculée Conception, 1932, was an early building in reinforced concrete.
* At
Solesmes Abbey
Solesmes Abbey or St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (''Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes'') is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guà ...
, the new library, the gallery of the great cloister and the ''lavatorium''
* The chapel of the seminary of Saint Louis, on the domain of Saint Hubert,
Neuvy-sur-Barangeon, Cher, 1936
* At
Suresnes
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in the garden city, the church of Notre-Dame de la Paix was dedicated in 1936.
* Basilica of Saint-Joseph-des-Fins at
Annecy
* The Priory of Saint Bathilda at
Vanves
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History
On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris ...
, between 1934 and 1936
* The
Château du Grand Chavanon in
Neuvy-sur-Barangeon, between 1935 and 1937.
* The church Nossa Senhora da Conceição in
Porto
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, Portugal, 1939–1947
* In
Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, the
Saint Benedict Abbey
* In
Montreal
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the completion of the dome and exterior of the basilica of
Saint Joseph's Oratory
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.
Filmography
* François Brault and Guy L. Coté made a film about Dom Bellot at Quebec in 1987: ''Dom Bellot, architecte, 1876–1943''.
References
External links
Dom Bellot, monk and architectBellotism
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1876 births
1944 deaths
20th-century French architects
Benedictine monks
French ecclesiastical architects
Architects from Paris