Collégiale Notre-Dame de Vitry-le-François, Baroque church in Place d'Armes, Vitry-le-François, France

Collégiale Notre-Dame is a Baroque church on Place d'Armes whose tan-and-grey stone facade is divided into three equal parts: two square towers flanking a central section of the same width, each tower rising through three stages of about equal height, marked by columns and cornices. The north tower went up first from 1629, the south tower followed in 1683. A dark stone fountain with a standing sculpted figure stands before the facade.

After Charles V destroyed Vitry-en-Perthois in 1544, the town was rebuilt on a grid plan and a timber church served from 1557. The first stone of the present church was laid in 1629; it was built around the old church, starting with the north tower, followed by the side chapels and the south tower in 1683. The roof was closed in 1755, allowing demolition of the timber church, and the choir was finished only at the end of the 19th century under Monsignor Nottin. A 1940 bombing burned the roof frame.

The church keeps furnishings brought from dissolved monasteries: the organ by Jacques Cochu came from Trois-Fontaines abbey in 1791, and the high altar of 1716 was made for a Reims church, moved to Châlons, resold, and bought for Vitry in 1875. Above the stalls hangs Louis-Simon Boizot's painting of the Sermon on the Mount.

The church stands on Place d'Armes in the grid plan laid out after 1544. The nave was built around the earlier timber church, so the north tower came first and the south tower only in 1683. The choir and ambulatory were finished in 1898 with a donation from the Count of Felcourt.

In 1914–1918 the church was requisitioned as a hospital: operating tables stood in the side chapels, while wounded men lay on straw beds along the nave aisles. The 1940 bombing burned out the roof frame, but much of the interior furnishings, including the 1788 organ, was saved.