Église Saint-Louvent de Rembercourt-aux-Pots, church building in Rembercourt-Sommaisne, France

Église Saint-Louvent is a cruciform Gothic church, 56 metres long, 18 metres high and 28 metres wide across the transept, with a three-aisled nave of five bays. Twelve columns of the central arcade, painted in 1938 by Raymond Cailly with the apostles and their attributes, support the rib vaults. The west front mixes Flamboyant Gothic and early Renaissance: a Madonna and Child stands on the trumeau, and an eagle appears in the upper archivolts. Outside, a polygonal apse with tall traceried windows and buttresses rises beside lower chapels.

A first shrine is said to have stood on the hill above the village in the early 7th century; a later church was probably destroyed in the Hundred Years' War. The present building was erected around 1500 under Duke René II of Lorraine, and it was among the first monuments classified in France in 1840.

The church is named after Saint Louvent (Lupentius), a 6th-century bishop said to have been killed on Queen Brunhild's orders; a legend holds that an eagle carried his head to the rocky height above the village, where a first shrine is said to have stood in the early 7th century. In the Middle Ages the church was an important pilgrimage site, and the village counted about 3,100 inhabitants before the plague of 1635, more than Nancy at the time. Look for the eagle carved in the middle of the upper archivolts of the west portal, a reference to that legend.

The church sits on Rue Milaville and is easily accessible on foot from the village center. Walking through the surrounding area allows visitors to reach the church while also exploring the quiet countryside that surrounds this small village.

The eagle carrying Saint Louvent's head to the rocky height above the village is carved in the centre of the upper archivolt of the west portal, so the legend is visible in stone before entering. The church also keeps a 14th-century polygonal baptismal font in the Chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste and a 17th-century wooden Saint Christopher.