St. Andrew's Church, Bayonne, Gothic Revival church in central Bayonne, France

St. Andrew's Church is a neo-Gothic church in the Petit Bayonne district, built of light tan stone between 1856 and 1869. Its facade has two square belfry towers with louvered openings, a central rose window above three pointed-arch portals, and a row of small arched openings below the rose. The interior has three ribbed naves with deep red vaulting, clustered stone piers, and an apse with stained-glass roundels.

Designed by Hippolyte Durand and Hippolyte Guichenné, the church was built from 1856 to 1869 on the site of a former Jansenist college in Petit Bayonne. Banker Jacques Taurin de Lormand's bequest of over 5 million francs funded most of the work, and the town council added money in 1858. It was consecrated on 7 March 1862. After the vault partly collapsed in 1895, the 74-metre spires were demolished in 1901 and replaced by the current belfry towers in 1903.

Inside, two paintings by Bayonne-born artists hang: Léon Bonnat's Assumption and Eugène Pascau's Holy Family. André Trébuchet made the ceramic Stations of the Cross in 1956, listed as a historic object. The organ, given by Napoléon III in 1862, has 32 stops and three manuals; composer Joseph Ermend-Bonnal was its titular organist from 1924 to 1939.

St. Andrew's Church stands in the Petit Bayonne quarter, in the Bayonne-Centre parish, a short walk from the Nive. Enter from the west facade, where the three portals open beneath the rose window; the nave and its two side aisles are then read in one view toward the apse. The building is an active parish church, so visits fit around Masses and parish activities.

The original 74-meter spires were replaced in 1903 by belfry towers after a partial vault collapse caused by swampy ground conditions. This adaptation shows how the building had to contend with geological challenges at its site.