Notre-Dame des Jacobins, Gothic church in Agen, France

Notre-Dame des Jacobins is a Gothic hall church in Agen with two equal naves of four bays each, separated by cylindrical columns. The walls are built of brick, with stone used for the window tracery, vault ribs and keystones. Outside, brick buttresses with sloped stone caps support the walls, and a low dark stone plinth runs along the base.

The Dominican convent of Agen was founded in 1249, according to Bernard Gui, at the initiative of inquisitor Bernard de Caux, who was buried in the church after his death in 1252. In 1254 Alphonse de Poitiers gave the friars a donation to build their church. The convent was pillaged by Protestants in 1561 and largely destroyed by mines; the church became a parish church in 1807 and was classified as a historical monument on 5 March 1904.

The name Jacobins comes from the convent of the Dominicans, called Jacobins in France because their first house in Paris stood on Rue Saint-Jacques. The church became the exhibition centre of the Musée des Beaux-Arts after its 1979 restoration by François Corouge. Medieval wall paintings recorded by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc survive because a planned painted decoration by Juste Lisch was never carried out for lack of funds.

The church stands on Place des Jacobins, between Rue Richard-Cœur-de-Lion and Rue Alexis-Pain, a short walk from the city centre. The entrance is the arched wooden double door in the long brick side wall, under the three lancet windows; a lamp post with three lanterns marks the spot. The building now serves as an exhibition space for the Musée des Beaux-Arts, so opening depends on the museum's programme.

The church is a reduced version of the two-nave Dominican churches of Toulouse and Paris, built on a rectangular plan with two equal four-bay naves. In the axis line the vaults rest on cylindrical columns, and brick buttresses with sloped stone caps take the thrust on the outside walls.