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
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Parking on the church square and in the alleys of the ancient village.
©Dan H. Lacarrer
