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Origin and history

The Saint-Médard de Longuau church, located in the Somme department, was built in 1962 to replace a building destroyed during the Second World War. It was designed by architect Marcel Gogois and inaugurated in October 1963. This building, made of concrete and stone wool, is distinguished by its original plan combining angular and rounded volumes, as well as by a glassed concrete arrow. A chapel of the baptismal fonts and a cross path in enamelled terracotta, work by Bernadette Sulmont, are remarkable.

Before the present building, Longuau had three successive churches. The first, rebuilt in 1810, was destroyed in 1839. The second, built in 1849 by architect Louis Henry Antoine, was bombed in 1940. A third temporary wooden church, built between 1946 and 1947, served until the opening of the present church in 1963. The latter temporary building was then converted into housing units.

In 2022, the municipality undertook partial renovation work, particularly for the nave and roof. The church now belongs to the Catholic parish of Saint-Domice in the diocese of Amiens, in the urban community of Amiens Métropole.

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