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Notre-Dame-et-Sainte-Catherine Church of Arengosse dans les Landes

Notre-Dame-et-Sainte-Catherine Church of Arengosse

    29 Place Aristide Briand
    40110 Arengosse

Timeline

Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1200
1300
1800
1900
2000
XIIe siècle
Construction of the first church
1859-1860
Partial renovation
1893
Total reconstruction
4 avril 1894
Blessing of the Church
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Key figures

Jules Sibien - Diocesan architect Directs the renovations of 1859-1860.
Jules François Dupouy - Diocesan architect Supervises the reconstruction of 1893.
Baron Gérard - Local patron Partially finance reconstruction.
Évêque Delannoy - Religious Blessed the church in 1894.

Origin and history

The Church of Notre-Dame-et-Sainte-Catherine of Arengosse is a Catholic religious building located in the Department of Landes, New Aquitaine. It replaces a first medieval church, Notre-Dame, erected in the 12th century according to Prosper Mérimée. The current neo-Gothic building is distinguished by its three vessels, its three-paned apse, and a bell tower with a reserve. The materials used include bellows, Angoulême stone, roof tiles, and bell tower slate.

The first church of Arengosse, dated the 12th century, underwent partial renovations in 1859 and 1860 under the direction of diocesan architect Jules Sibien and entrepreneur Peyruqueou. This includes the construction of an ogival bell tower, but the condition of the building remains precarious. A total reconstruction was therefore undertaken in 1893, leading to the present church, blessed on 4 April 1894 by Bishop Delannoy.

The reconstruction is financed by local personalities, including Baron Gérard, owner of the Château de Castillon, and the Bourneau and Lareillet families. The architect Jules François Dupouy supervises this project, giving birth to a building marked by capitals carved with leaves and hooks, and a vaulted nave lit by quadrilobed oculi.

The church is now attached to the parish of Saint Joseph of Brassenx and to the diocese of Aire and Dax. It bears witness to the neo-Gothic religious architecture of the late 19th century, while preserving traces of its medieval history and successive transformations.

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