Guided tour of the belfry of the collegiate church

Name: Guided tour of the belfry of the collegiate church
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Collégiale Notre-Dame

The collegiate church is completed by the belfry in 1362\. This building gives the collegiate church its imposing aspect. It has three levels supported at the angles by powerful buttresses. The...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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Free. Free entrance.

©Ville de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon

The collegiate church is completed by the belfry in 1362. This building gives the collegiate church its imposing aspect. It has three levels supported at the corners by powerful buttresses. The ground floor is decorated with a large blind ogival arch while the last level is pierced on each side by two arched bell bays with shades grouped under a ogival arch decorated with a clock. This last level is surmounted by battlements and machicolations.

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About the location

Collégiale Notre-Dame

Place Meissonnier, 30400 Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

Gard
Occitanie

Southern Gothic church built in the 14th century by Cardinal Arnaud de Via, nephew of Pope John XXII. It was the chapel of a monastery of canons founded by the cardinal in the fourteenth century. The cloister, leaning against the north side, served the other buildings of the monastery. This monastery was abolished by the Revolution, and the Collegiate Church became the seat of the parish of Villeneuve, which it still is today.
It houses many works of art, the burning tomb of the Cardinal de Via, as well as the copy of the famous Pietà de Villeneuve, whose original is in the Louvre Museum.