Saint-Merri is a parish church in Paris near the Centre Pompidou. The infobox gives groundbreaking in 1685 and completion in 1690, while the text says it was begun under François I around 1520 and finished around 1560, and the article does not reconcile them. It names no architect. A church on the site dates to about 1200.
The infobox says French Gothic, and the text calls it predominantly Flamboyant, with Renaissance features and later classical and Baroque changes. In the 18th century the rood screen was removed and Gothic pillars were covered in marble or stucco. A Chapel of the Communion was built in 1743 to plans by Boffrand.
The slender bell tower has a bell from 1331. The organ was rebuilt in 1781 by François-Henri Clicquot, and Camille Saint-Saëns was organist from 1853 to 1857. The church was listed as a monument historique in 1862.
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