Self-guided tour

Name: Self-guided tour
Start: 2024-09-21T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-22T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Église Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc

Visit of a recent church: its architecture with its symbols and its innovation: its wall-light, work of the master glassmaker François Chapuis.

21 and 22 SeptemberPassed

An accompanied visit is offered and a descriptive sheet offered.

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Église Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc

55 Boulevard Guy-Marie-Riobé 45000 Orléans

Loiret
Centre-Val de Loire

It was built as a parish church in the years 1965-67 in a northern part of the city devastated by the destruction of the Second World War. The project was innovative. The architecture of wooden beams, structured in an imposing helical vault, unfolds around a large axial pillar of concrete of 1.20 meters in diameter. The latter ends outside the building by the cross. On the perimeter, twenty-one pillars support the structure. The innovative character of the project can also be seen on the ornamental plan: Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc is rich in a large wall of light on its right side, made of polyester plates by François Chapuis.