Discover the restored choir wall paintings!

Name: Discover the restored choir wall paintings!
Start: 2022-09-18T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Église Notre-Dame

For the launch of the second phase of the project to restore the mural paintings of the Notre-Dame church choir, the ASPCCVD* offers you a guided tour of the church!

Sunday 18 September 2022, 09:30Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

©Dan H. Lacarrer

For the launch of the second phase of the project to restore the mural paintings of the Notre-Dame church choir, the ASPCCVD* offers you a guided tour of the church!

*Association pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Culturel et Cultuel de la Vallée de la Durèze
You will discover an exhibition of old photographs and another point of interest near the church, the old part of the village of Gensac!

About the location

Église Notre-Dame

Rue du Temple, 33890 Gensac

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The church of Notre-Dame in Gensac (33890) was built on a rocky spur in the 1870s instead of a very old Romanesque church (12th century) in ruins. The building proudly dominates the valleys of the Durèze and the Dordogne. The construction of this neo-gothic church is remarkable in the context of the late nineteenth century. The construction works directed by the architect Jean-Jules Mondet were carried out from 1869 to 1872, under the impulse of a parish priest and a builder archbishop: Jean Hosteing parish priest of Gensac from 1864 to 1875 and Cardinal Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux from 1837 to 1878\. The masonry work was carried out rather quickly for a building of this size, however the finishing work and embellishment (stained glass and wall paintings) were carried out over a period of about twenty years, ending with the magnificent mural paintings of the choir by the Bordeaux painter Léo Millet in 1897\. These time- and moisture-damaged paints have bee