Église Saint-Vincent de Floirac, Romanesque church in Floirac, France

Église Saint-Vincent de Floirac is a church in upper Floirac at 49 avenue Jean Lassauguette whose western facade carries a neo-Gothic bell tower-porch: a pointed-arch doorway, a tribune lit by an oculus with spiral tracery, a bell chamber with four Flamboyant bays, and an octagonal top with pinnacles below a crocketed spire. The Romanesque chevet has five sides separated by engaged columns with carved capitals, under a cornice on fifteen corbels, eleven of them 12th-century.

The current structure began construction in the first half of the 12th century as a Romanesque church. Major restoration and renovation work took place between 1855 and 1869, modernizing the building while preserving its medieval foundations.

The church is the parish church of the Bordeaux-Bastide-Floirac pastoral sector in the Archdiocese of Bordeaux. Its patron is Saint Vincent. The building was inscribed in its entirety in the supplementary inventory of monuments historiques on 26 February 2001, which protects the Romanesque chevet and the 19th-century neo-Gothic bell tower-porch together.

The church stands at 49 avenue Jean Lassauguette in upper Floirac, on the right bank of the Garonne in the Bordeaux urban area. The west facade is entered through the neo-Gothic tower porch, whose pointed portal leads straight into the nave. Look up at the tower to read its four levels: porch, tribune with spiral oculus, bell chamber and octagonal pinnacled stage below the spire.

Of the fifteen corbels under the Romanesque chevet cornice, eleven date from the 12th century; the four added in the 19th-century restoration are recognisable by their fresher stone. The medieval ones include a pine cone, interlace and discs, plus figures such as a tongue-pulling mask and a pig's snout holding a host.