Église Notre-Dame de Chatou, Romanesque church in Chatou, France
Église Notre-Dame de Chatou is a church building located in the town center with stone walls and large windows characteristic of Gothic design. The structure reveals features from different construction phases that were added over several centuries.
Construction of this church began in the 12th century as a religious building for the medieval town. Over centuries, the building underwent expansions and modifications, particularly continuing through the late 19th century.
The church is also known as Notre-Dame de l'Assomption and Notre-Dame-du-Salut. Since December 2021, the Berthe et Edgar contemporary art gallery has opened on Place Sainte-Marie facing the church, named after Berthe Morisot and Edgar Degas, who worked in the area in the 19th century.
The church stands at 4 place Sainte-Marie, near the Seine and the 1966 Chatou bridge, at the entrance to the town and close to the Île des Impressionnistes. The bridge was moved about 175 metres in the 1960s, reshaping the surrounding quarter. The flat chevet and the sunken choir, lower than the nave, show the building's original ground level.
The 14th-century wooden Virgin and Child statue was listed as a monument historique in 1905, twenty years before the church itself was inscribed in 1925. It was restored in the 19th century.
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