![]() French Benedictine monk and architect. Born in Paris in 1876. Responsible for several churches and monasteries in The Netherlands, Great-Brittain, France, Canada, Belgium and Portugal. Following a family-tradition he graduated as an architect in 1900. In 1902 he became a monk, but continued his architectural career. He died in Canada in 1944. The following is a list of his work in The Netherlands only. In this country he cooperated with architects such as P. Cuypers jr. and H.C. van de Leur, the latter of which continued designing in a Bellot-like style after the partnership had ended. A more extensive site about this architect is the bilingual Dom Paul Bellot o.s.b. monnik-architect. Pictures marked "A.L." are from this site, and are used with permission. |
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1906-1909 Oosterhout (NB): St. Paulusabdij
Abbey built for a French monastic order in exile in The Netherlands. Between 1914 and 1928 Bellot lived in this abbey, where he had set up his architect-office. A church designed for this monastery was never built, although Bellot later used some of his ideas for the church in Waalwijk. |
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1921 Noordhoek (NB): church St. Josef
A small village-church designed in cooperation with H.C. van de Leur. |
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1922-1924 Bloemendaal (NH): St. Adalbertkapel
Octagonal chapel on a cemetary. Nowadays a Buddhist temple. |
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1924-1925 Eindhoven(NB): Verrijzeniskapel
Chapel of the Augustinian monastery Mariënhage. Designed in cooperation with J. Hegeman. |
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1923-1924 Heerle (NB): enlargement church St. Gertrudis
A very unusual way to enlarge a church; in a matching style a new church is added diametrically opposed to the existing neo-Gothic church. This was the first and only time Bellot designed in the style of neo-Gothicism, although elements in a more recognizable Bellot-style are present at the entrance and the apse. |
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1926-1927 Waalwijk-Besoyen (NB): church O.L. Vrouwe Onbevlekte Ontvangenis
Church designed in cooperation with P. Cuypers jr.. Bellot used some of his ideas for a church in Oosterhout in this design, most notably the closure of the choir. |
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1927-1929 Nijmegen (G): church St. Theresia The only church Bellot built in concrete in The Netherlands. Designed in cooperation with H.C. van de Leur. Demolished in 1993. |
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1928-1929 Leerdam (ZH): church H. Maria
Church designed in cooperation with H.C. van de Leur. |
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1930-1931 Eindhoven (NB): church H. Hart
Church designed in cooperation with H.C. van de Leur. Tower very similar to that in Waalwijk, Besoyen. |
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