Presbytery of Notre-Dame de Paris, clergy house in 4th arrondissement of Paris, France

Presbytery of Notre-Dame de Paris is a clergy house at 6 place du parvis Notre-Dame, directly southwest of the cathedral in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. Its stone walls, small pointed windows, and neat neo-Gothic details give the whole block a calm presence among the busy pedestrian flows around the square.

The presbytery was built in 1866 by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, who was also directing major restoration work on Notre-Dame at the time. It survived the 2019 fire that damaged the cathedral, then underwent repairs before being protected as a classified historical monument by an order of 24 December 2024.

The lower part of the building still gives a sense of how the cathedral clergy once lived and worked next to the parvis, with rooms arranged for meetings, prayer, and daily tasks. Today, passersby mostly notice it as a quiet stone neighbor to the great church, its pointed windows echoing the larger Gothic forms just a few steps away.

Walk around from the main parvis to the southwest side, where the building faces the edge of the square and is easy to view from the surrounding pedestrian zone. It is best approached on foot since the immediate area is often crowded, and the facade can be seen clearly without entering the cathedral complex.

Before late 2024, the official protection around Notre-Dame covered mainly the cathedral itself, while this smaller building at the edge of the parvis remained outside that special status. Its entry onto the monuments list came only after the full reopening of the cathedral, making it a recent addition to a much older protected ensemble.