Rouen City Hall

The Town Hall of Rouen

The Town Hall of Rouen occupies former buildings of the Saint-Ouen abbey, alongside the majestic abbey church. The Rouen audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this elegant building, seat of the municipality, a witness of the reconversion of the religious heritage.

The former abbey building become the town hall

Next to the Abbey Church of Saint-Ouen, which rises in height, is a building that, for its part, prefers to spread out in length: the current town hall of Rouen. This building indeed occupies former premises of the powerful Benedictine abbey of Saint-Ouen, whose abbey church was the church. After the Revolution and the disappearance of the abbey, these vast eighteenth-century conventual buildings, with classical and elegant architecture, were reconverted to welcome the municipality. The town hall, with its long harmonious façade and its steps, thus illustrates the passage from religious power to civil power, and the reuse of the heritage in the service of the town. In front of it extends a pleasant garden, which highlights the monumental ensemble formed with the abbey church. A witness of the history and the administrative life of Rouen, the town hall is a fine stop of the discovery of the town.

What to see

You admire the elegant building with a long classical eighteenth-century façade, a former conventual building of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Ouen reconverted after the Revolution to welcome the municipality, alongside the majestic abbey church, in front of a pleasant garden. The town hall illustrates the reconversion of the heritage in Rouen. It is a stop to be discovered, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Town Hall of Rouen lies next to the Abbey Church of Saint-Ouen, in the heart of the town, reachable on foot. You admire its façade and the garden freely; it is an official building whose interior access follows its own conditions. You discover it during a walk in the centre.

What was the Town Hall of Rouen before being the town hall?

Former conventual buildings of the powerful Benedictine abbey of Saint-Ouen, of the eighteenth century; after the Revolution and the disappearance of the abbey, they were reconverted to welcome the municipality, alongside the abbey church.

Where is the Town Hall of Rouen?

Next to the Abbey Church of Saint-Ouen, in the heart of Rouen, in France.