page_title: Church of Saint-Bruno des Chartreux
section_title: Choir
hierarchical_section_title: Church of Saint-Bruno des Chartreux / Description / Choir
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vierge en albâtre de Joseph-Hugues Fabisch, 1863. Église Saint-Bruno des Chartreux, Lyon, France. Au dessus est écrit en latin: CONSOLATRIX AFFLICTORUM ORA PRO NOBIS.
context_page_description: The Church of Saint-Bruno des Chartreux is a Roman Catholic church located in Lyon, France. Until the French Revolution, it was the church of Lyon Charterhouse. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Bruno of Cologne, also known as Saint Bruno of the Carthusians, and is the city's only Baroque church.
context_section_description: The choir now has only 5 windows, after several were blocked up during the second phase of works by the architect Ferdinand-Sigismond Delamonce in 1733-37. The Rococo stalls found here show reversed volutes and garlands of foliage as well as asymmetrical shells and garlands of flowers.
  Typical of the 17th century Baroque style, the 1628 statues now located on the pilasters of the Munet arch were originally in the choir. They are by Sarazin and represent Saint Bruno of Cologne and Saint John the Baptist. The drapery of these figures is dynamically carved, and their thin faces and tense eyes add to their pathetic expressions.
  Today the church organ is also located in the choir, but the church has only had one since 1890, when it became a parish church. It is now known as the best of the double keyboards in Lyon. Before 1890 the austerity of the Carthusian Rule made for an austere liturgy unadorned by organ music.
  The offices were celebrated in the choir until 1737, when it was separated from the rest of the church for building works by a partition. In the initial plan by the architect Delamonce for his second phase of works, the choir remained separated from the rest of the church but the abbot refused to authorise this plan, and so a second was drawn up and accepted that kept the choir as part of the church.
caption: Virgin of the Carthusians, by Joseph-Hugues Fabisch, official sculptor to the Diocese of Lyon
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