Basilica of Saint Nicholas, Nantes

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (June 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,508 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Basilique Saint-Nicolas de Nantes]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Basilique Saint-Nicolas de Nantes}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The Basilica of Saint Nicholas (French: Basilique Saint-Nicolas de Nantes) is a minor basilica in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, historically in Brittany. The present church is a Gothic Revival structure built during the years 1844 to 1869^[1] on the site of a mediaeval parish church largely rebuilt in the late 18th century. Because of the constrained site in the centre of the old city, the church is oriented north-south rather than the traditional east-west.^[2] The building was severely damaged in World War II in the Allied bombardment of 16 September 1943.^[3] Structural repairs were not completed until 1978.^[4] It was declared a minor basilica by Pope Leo XIII on 26 October 1882.^[5]

The Gothic Revival furnishings were registered as a monument historique on 20 November 1985, the church itself on 6 November 1986.^[4]