Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de La Bastide-Clairence, Catholic church in La Bastide-Clairence, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

The Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption is a church built from ferruginous sandstone and Bidache limestone, measuring 42 m long and 24 m wide, with a 20 m tower. Its facade has a central square tower with a clock and statue niches, flanked by symmetrical gabled wings. Inside, a barrel-vaulted nave with 72 coffered panels leads to a choir with three large paintings.

Consecrated in 1315 by Arnaud de Puyana, Bishop of Pamplona, the church was largely rebuilt between 1776 and 1779. It hosted the Estates General of the Kingdom of Navarre in the 17th and 18th centuries until 1789. During the Revolution the Navarre coat of arms on the facade was hammered off. It has been listed as a monument historique since 1996.

The church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, and its name in Basque is Jasokundeko Andre Mariaren eliza. The choir holds three large paintings: Saint John the Baptist, the Assumption of the Virgin and Saint Nicholas. The vault has 72 coffers bearing coats of arms, and the Navarre arms on the facade were hammered off during the Revolution.

The church stands in the village centre of La Bastide-Clairence, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. The 14th-century Romanesque porch gives access to the nave, whose three wooden galleries line the sides. The cemetery-courtyard paved with funeral slabs lies by the building, and the Door of the Cagots is under the exterior staircase.

Inside the church grounds lies a covered cemetery paved with funeral slabs - the only preserved example of this type in the Basque region. This unusual arrangement shows how burials once took place directly adjacent to the church building.