The most beautiful religious buildings France

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According to tradition and according to a former document, King Saint Louis would be the founder of the church Notre-Dame de Chambly. Most of this Gothic building dates back to the th century; the choir, the nave, the facade, the small chapel of the Holy Virgin and the th century tower. The nave contains a beautifully sculpted Louis XIV chair. Four turning points, part of an immense polyptyque of antwerp or brabançonne origin, attract many visitors. These components represent St. Gregory's Mass, the Supper, the Judas de Judas, Ecce Homo, the Garden of Olive Trees, Pentecost and Resurrection.

Notre-Dame Abbey was built in 1138 by Raoul IV of Vermandois, Comte de Crépy. If the church we observe today is very different from that of the 40 th century, excavations over the past years have revealed the architectural importance of the parish: a rigorous symmetry, a prominent transept, a basilicale nave and a flat chevet choir (replaced by a apse in the th century). After the Hundred Years War, the abbey is almost entirely restored. The nave passes from five to three spans. The crosspieces are associated with the central vessel thanks to a hanger double arcade back on a circular stack. The abbey is a beautiful example of flamboyant Gothic, as evidenced by the very wide and refined rose facade of its exterior exterior, illuminated under the rays of the sunset sun. The abbey is located outside the village of Bonneuil (access by RD 32 between Fresnoy-la-Rivière and Vez).

The church Saint-Pierre, built around 1100, imposes its rustic architecture with its stretched roofs and original porch, which Françoise d 'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon, wanted to teach the children of the parish. The interior is austere since there is no fresco, no table, no dorure… Why so much attachment to this building? Because the visitor appreciates his hidden treasures: Its Romanesque nef that leads to a Gothic choir dating back to 1555, its two statues of polychrome wood, its entrance to the cellar where the Trinitarian religious were buried, who were pasta from Avon from 1693 to 1790, and its sixty tombstones that are visible on one of his side. Long parish church of the vast country of beer, royal church to Louis XIV, classified as historic monument in 1840 by Prosper Mérimée, it became property of the commune in 1905 with the law of separation of churches and state. Finally, for the small story, the composer Jules Massenet was married in 1866.

Listed as a Historical monument, this church was built in the seventeenth century as a chapel to the then attached Recollet convent. With its curves and cons-curves facade, it is a typical Baroque church of that time in Provence Orientale. It has a beautiful altar of the eighteenth century in polychrome marble, choir, woodwork and pulpit in walnut from Senequier. It is located below the Lafayette courtyard, opposite the tourist office.

It is at the foot of the old village that the church Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, better known under the name of Sainte-Rosalie, was built in the 12th century. We first of all take note of its nave, inspired by Italian Baroque, built in the 17th century by the Chevaliers de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem. It houses a gilded wooden statue of Sainte Rosalie and a statue of the Madone, so-called "Mizraim", brought from Egypt at the time of the Crusades by the lord of Chabaud.

In a Neoclassical style, the building was constructed in the eighteenth century at the request of Charles Emmanuel III King of Savoy. The blue colour of the clock's dial is that of the Virgin. The church is listed as a historic monument since 1984.

The first building erected here dates from the life of the century, and it was demolished in the thirteenth century to accommodate a new construction. When a fire fell victim a few decades later, the church was rebuilt in a flamboyant Gothic style (xve century). The ornamental elements come mostly from other Parisian places of worship. Sumptuous stained glass windows, set up during the restoration of the building in the nineteenth century, adorn the windows. The most recent dates are from the twentieth century, the oldest of the xive. Not to miss in the chorus: the species of mineral forest formed by the torsaid pillars and the veins of the vault. Note that in the seventeenth century the Great Lady (aka the Duchess of Montpensier) financed as a member of the parish the creation of an oval chapel built on Jules Hardouin Mansart's plans. This includes "Miserere", a series of engravings of Georges Rouault (1913).

It is a symbol of this district, and whose dome can be seen from very far away, since it is more than 80 meters high. Built relatively quickly, between 1860 and 1871, Saint-Augustin Church was the first to use mainly iron and cast iron for its construction. Over a length of about a hundred metres, with no pseudo-Byzantine representations on its sides, it has taken the shape of the land dedicated to it, thus displaying a relatively narrow façade and an immense choir. In recent years, it is precisely the facade that has been renovated, and we are waiting for work to be done on the rest of the building, particularly the chevets.

It is known that Saint Louis came to request in a church preceding this one with the same campsite. It took there even the Croix with its knights in 1269 to leave to deliver Jerusalem. The current church was inaugurated in 1679. It was sold like national good with the Revolution, then repurchased, its current decoration with baroque tonality dating from the 19th century. The church offers to the public a wide access to the sacred music: Schola Saint-Louis, taking part in the liturgy of the parish and proposing a hearing at the end of the year is opened to any person wishing to look further into the Gregorian chant. Various concerts of spiritual music are organized and one can regularly hear the large barrel organs held per MM Alard and Rigot.

It was in this chapel that Jesus would have appeared to St. Margaret Mary in 1673 and 1675. Also called Chapel of Apparitions, this chapel situated at the Visitation Street was built around 1633 and was rebuilt in the late nineteenth century to accommodate large number of pilgrims. The sessionnists are also many to come here every summer and discover this sacred place.  A fresco painted in 1966 and 1973 represents the second appearance in which Christ presents its wounds of the Passion. To the right of the choir, a small chapel houses the shrine of Sainte-Marguerite-Marie Alacoque where a molding wax covering her bones rests.This shrine dates from the beatification of the nun in 1864 before being canonized in 1920.

The church was built in the th and th centuries. The three crosses of warheads before the choir date back to the th century. In the th and th centuries, the church expanded by the construction of a span and chapels on the southern side of the apse. In 1827, the last two spans, the north side, the chapels of Canon Planchet street and the current bell were built. The portal is built in conchylien limestone, the shells embedded in the stone are very apparent, and many figures can be noticed. The magnificent stained glass windows of the choir and those of the chapels of the Virgin and Saint John Baptiste are A. Mauvernay, a master verrier in Saint-Galmier.

On the front, on the lower cornice of the triangular pediment mounted by the architect Antoine Spinelli, is inscribed Societas sanctissimi Sepulcri, which can be translated as Société du Très-Saint-Sépulcre, the official name of the Blue Penitents. It is to this brotherhood founded in 1431 that this building dedicated today to the Italian Catholic Mission belongs. Its construction has continued through the centuries: the nave in the 15th century, the choir with its beautiful baroque decoration in the 18th century and the last finishing touches in the 19th century. Inside, the decoration comes from various origins. The paintings are dated from different periods while the ceilings are from the 19th century. Legend has it that a young monk named Martin Luther, who was in Nice, celebrated a mass there.

St. Croix Church is the monastery's former chapel. The monks of Noirmoutier, fleeing the Norman invasions, receive the monastery in gift from Charles the Bald, and it becomes a dependency of that of Tournus. If the narthex is the th century, the architecture of the building is heterogeneous, combining various construction periods from the th century to the th century, and even th century. Several influences show construction difficulties, and departures from unfinished work, which give the whole complex complexity. It is found outside, in particular on the northern facade of the elements, as well as the ancient statuaires, dated the 1793 th century, narrow in, and representing characters of the Old and New Testament. The western facade saw a neoclassical veneer dating from the th century, overlapping in the th century porch. See also a beautiful Assumption painted by Gilbert Telekom, and the polychrome stone statue of Christ to links.

The collegiate Saint-Spire was built in the tenth century to receive the relics of Saint Exupère, the first bishop of Bayeux, whose name was subsequently distorted in Saint Spire and Saint Loup, also bishop of Bayeux. This church was destroyed several times by fire and then rebuilt between xiie and the fifteenth century. She was the seat of a collegiate college until 1790, when she became a parish church. It was built in the cathedral in 1966: the creation of the Essonne department coincided with the creation of a corresponding diocese. Inside the church, you can notice the eighteenth century woodworks and furniture, as well as the gestures of Count Haymon, the masterpiece of the first church and death in 957. To note also the sculptures of the characters and animals of the sixteenth century that framed the door of the sacristie. The stained glass windows dated in 1946 because they were destroyed by bombing on August 13, 1944.