Oil painting. The view is east across the Place de la Motte Rouge, which drops back from the corner of the inner harbour at La Rochelle at the south end of the Quai Valin. The old parish church of Saint-Nicolas, founded in the 13th century and much damaged in the 16th, was rebuilt in late baroque form in 1658. From 1887, after a new parish church was built on another site, it was converted to a customs warehouse, later into shops, and finally into a tourism hotel in 1978. Today the church tower has a plain slated pyramidal roof, without the short central spire shown here by Everett and in a more finished version, which is BHC1859.