Collégiale Notre-Dame d'Uzeste, Gothic church in Uzeste, France

Collégiale Notre-Dame d'Uzeste is a Gothic collegiate church built of pale grey-beige sandstone, with Romanesque side walls. A tall, slender openwork spire with pinnacles and a small clock face rises from a tower on the right. The facade has pointed-arch windows with stone tracery, a rose-window-like opening, and open stone balustrades.

Construction began in the 13th century as a church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. In the 14th century, Pope Clement V enlarged the building and selected it as his burial site.

The tympanum over the Romanesque lintel of the south portal shows the Coronation of the Virgin, with traces of the polychromy that once coloured it. The church keeps a 14th-century Vierge à l'Enfant in the central radiating chapel, and two painted wooden crucifixes, from the 15th and 17th centuries.

The site is open for visitors to explore both the exterior and interior of the church building. Allow time to walk around the structure and observe its architectural features and sculptural elements.

The building is made of sandstone, unlike nearly all other churches of its kind in Gironde. This only came to light during the first restoration phase begun in 2022, since Lucien Magne's 1897 restoration had used white limestone.