Église Notre-Dame-de-Tous-les-Saints d'Entremont, Neoclassical Catholic church in Entremont, France

The Église Notre-Dame-de-Tous-les-Saints d'Entremont has a lower facade of light-grey stone blocks around a recessed arched doorway with a dark opening, sheltered by a gabled porch roof on two white columns. Above, the upper facade is painted ochre and pale orange in panels; two large panels flank a narrow arched window with a dark grille, each holding a painted oval emblem with scrollwork and heraldic motifs. The triangular gable is also ornamented, and the roof edges overhang.

The church began as part of Entremont Abbey in the 12th century. Since 1445 it has served as the parish church for the surrounding community.

The church takes its name from a Marian statue holding relics of saints including Andrew, Augustine, Bartholomew, Blaise, Stephen, Lawrence and Mary Magdalene. Pilgrims came to it from the 16th century. The abbey also claimed to keep an ampoule of the Virgin's milk, and women of the valley prayed there to "Notre Dame de tous les seins".

The church stands 500 m from the main village, on the left bank of the Borne along the CD 12 between Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny and Saint-Jean-de-Sixt, beside the south bridge that was the only crossing here in 1730. A large ochre-rendered building restored in 1998 partly hides the facade from the road.

The left door panel of 1723 bears the mark of a mule's iron shoe and the Latin inscription "Haec Nota in Antiqua erat, i,g,c,r 1723". The mark is tied to a local tale of a mule carrying a reliquary to Entremont. Look for it at eye level on the left leaf of the broken-arch portal.