Église Saint-Rémi de Gif-sur-Yvette, Church building in Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Église Saint-Rémi de Gif-sur-Yvette is a small rural church building in the commune of Gif-sur-Yvette, south of Paris. The structure shows two main construction periods, with the sturdy older base and tower contrasting with later pointed stonework and a flat eastern end.
The first written record of a church here comes from the year 813, when a priest named Warodus was responsible for it. The current building keeps parts from the 11th and 12th centuries, while much of it was rebuilt in the 15th century and then heavily restored in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Inside, visitors can see wooden stalls from the 15th century that came from the nearby abbey of Notre-Dame du Val, along with statues and paintings tied to local worship. The windows, made in the mid-20th century, bring colored light onto the stone and give the interior a direct sense of the village's religious objects.
The church stands near the center and is best approached on foot, with a small paved area in front. The main door is on the south side, and the ground around the building is mostly flat and easy to walk on.
During the 1980s restoration, workers found a colored statue of a headless woman hidden behind a plaster wall inside. The stone figure, still on view, had been walled away during an earlier renovation and forgotten for a long time.
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