Église Notre-Dame-des-Anges de Royan, Gothic Revival church in Royan, France

Église Notre-Dame-des-Anges is a neo-Gothic chapel in Royan's Pontaillac district, built of light grey ashlar with a darker stone gable topped by a Celtic cross and a small bellcote. A polylobed rose window sits above the pointed portal with its red double doors, flanked by blind arches. Inside, a single nave of seven bays has a dark timber vault, a smaller choir with an ogival brick vault, and a three-lancet chevet window.

The first stone was laid on 2 February 1891 in the presence of Bishop Ardin, after years of dispute over a chapel for Pontaillac; the plans were by Saintes architect Eustase Rullier and the shell by Joseph and Michel Ricoux. The Allied bombardments of 1945 spared the building. The stained glass of the chevet was made in 1949 by Limoges glassmaker Francis Gigot.

The choir walls carry frescoes of angels painted in 1897 by the Bordeaux artist Léon Millet, who also painted the murals of the Saint-Vivien church in Saintes. The nave itself is left plain, so the colour is concentrated around the altar. The name Notre-Dame-des-Anges refers to the Virgin and the angels shown in the 1949 stained glass of the chevet.

The chapel stands in the Pontaillac seaside district, west of central Royan, and is reached via Avenue de Paris. Inside, rows of wooden chairs face the raised sanctuary beneath a dark timber vault. The nave is a single rectangle of seven bays leading to a smaller choir.

The three-lancet chevet window holds a 1949 stained-glass work by Limoges master glassmaker Francis Gigot: the Virgin and Child in the centre, angels in the side lancets, the Holy Spirit in the oculus above. Allied bombing in 1945 spared the chapel.