Eglise Saint-Jean
Place Foch, 55000 Bar-le-Duc
From the environment(middle) of the XIXth century, the parish Notre-Dame possesses an appendix in the district of brasseries(breweries), then enlarging. The idea to transform it into church germinates in 1869\. It is in 1875 when the fourth parish is created in Bar-le-Duc under the term of Saint Jean. The study of project was confided(entrusted) to the departmental architect Charles Demoget, but its draughts for a neo-Gothic building are controversial. In 1875 the construction of the church begins conducted by Ernest Birglin. Between 1875 and 1880, only the apse and the transept are established, in a style mixing(involving) the Neo-novel and the Neo-Byzantine. These two styles join in particular in the employment(use) of arcades and of vaults in round arch and of rosettes in simple forms. The construction site(work) is opened again in 1933 by the architect Royer, who builds the nave until 1939\. The building will be only finally ended after the war.
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Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire, Édifice religieux
(c) Guillaume Ramon
