St Pierre Square is a remembrance of one of the biggest female monastery of the North of the Gaul: Our Lady Abbey. Founded between 659 and 666, it was composed of three churches: St-Pierre-Au-Parvis, Ste Genevieve (missing) and Our Lady.

Of this abbey, demolished during the French Revolution,

there is only one façade left, the three first bays of the Romanesque church nave-dated 12th century- and the St Pierre church, where was inaugurated ,in 1953 ,a monument dedicated to the Deportation.

At the rear, face to the “English footbridge”, stands a cenotaph dedicated to the British soldiers, dead during the

Aisne and Marne battles in 1918.In the public garden two openings of Our Lady are a remembrance of the treasure of the Romanesque architecture: acanthus leaves capitals, a chimera with a human head, monsters devouring a character, a bird of prey.

This Romanesque set is interesting as it is not very common in a city centre. Nowadays it is shown to advantage by the garden and the floodlighting from the “Lightning up Project”.