Paul Bellot
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Paul Louis Denis Bellot (born, Paris June 7, 1876 - Montreal July 5, 1944) was a monk and architect.
He became an architect in 1900. In 1902 he became a monk of the Benedictines of Solesmes. These monks were at exile in England, and Bellot began building Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight.
In the Netherlands Bellot designed St Paul's Abbey at Oosterhout for the Order. He designed several churches in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Canada and Portugal. Most are built largely of concrete or brick.
Bellot was a member of L'Arche, an organisation whose goal it was to use modern materials and art for religious purposes. In Canada, Bellot influenced several architects (i.e. Dom Claude-Marie Côté, also a Benedictine monk, and Adrien Dufresne, a layperson[1]) and his architectural influence became known as "Bellotism".
