Lecture on «Notre-Dame-du-Bout-des-Ponts Church» by Marc Sanson

Name: Lecture on «Notre-Dame-du-Bout-des-Ponts Church» by Marc Sanson
Start: 2023-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée-Hôtel Morin

Notre-Dame du Bout des Ponts, in Amboise, on the north bank of the Loire, is a church of faubourg, modest but endearing, consecrated at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The presumed 500th anniv

Sunday 17 September 2023, 15:00Passed

Editions Hugues de Chivré

Notre-Dame du Bout des Ponts, in Amboise, on the north bank of the Loire, is a small but endearing faubourg church dedicated to the early sixteenth century. The 500th anniversary (in 2021) of its consecration was an opportunity to focus on its construction and the main events that have marked its history. The church has undergone several modifications and especially restorations over the centuries because of its proximity to the Loire, with formidable floods. Its surroundings (bridges, dikes, roads) have been significantly modified. The interior presents several points of interest, from the 16th to the 20th century: vault, carved keystones, stained glass windows, high altar, pulpit, bench of work, statues, paintings.
Archivist-paleographer, graduate of the Ecole des Chartes, the IEP of Paris and the ENA, Honorary State Councillor, Marc Sanson has just published a reference book on the church Notre-Dame-du-Bout-des-Ponts.
The conference will be followed by the presentation and dedication of Marc Sanson’s book.

About the location

Musée-Hôtel Morin

Rue François-Ier 37400 Amboise

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

The Museum - Hotel Morin is the private home of Pierre Morin, treasurer of Louis XII. Built between 1501 and 1505, it became in the eighteenth century the ducal palace of the duke of Choiseul, then the seat of the town hall of the French Revolution in the 1970s, date of the construction of a new building housing the town hall. By the end of the 19th century, the building was transformed into a museum, bringing together national repositories and collections acquired by successive municipalities. The Hotel Morin was listed as a historic monument on October 8, 1880\. Its architecture dates from the first French Renaissance, an alliance of French Gothic and Italian Renaissance.