Église Notre-Dame de Bourges, Gothic church in Bourges, France.

Notre-Dame de Bourges is a stone church on rue Notre-Dame with a tall north tower capped by a grey slate roof and arched openings near the top. Its long body has a steep slate roof, a large pointed-arch window with dark tracery on the right, and a row of smaller pointed windows below. A small stone annex with a pyramidal slate roof and two barred rectangular windows projects at the lower centre.

Until 1803 the church was dedicated to Saint Peter and called Saint-Pierre-le-Marché. Gaspard Thaumas de La Thaumassière dated it to 1157, but Paul Gauchery placed its construction in the 15th century; it was destroyed by the great fire of Bourges on 22 July 1487. Parishioners repaired and enlarged it in 1520, and a local tradition credits Guillaume Pelvoysin with the north tower of 1525. It was classified as a monument historique on 26 January 1931.

Until 1803 the church was called Saint-Pierre-le-Marché, and the name change to Notre-Dame is the clearest trace of its past. Inside, a 16th-century white marble font carries fleur-de-lis, shields with an eagle and the motto "Tout se passe et rian ne dure, ne ferme choze tant soit dure. 1507"; its origin is unknown, perhaps the Sainte-Chapelle of Bourges or Saint-Ambroix Abbey.

The church stands on Rue Notre-Dame, with the 1525 tower-bell at the north end of the west facade and the reworked south door facing the street. The chevet was altered in the 19th century, so the east end differs from the 16th-century nave. Look for the small barred windows of the low stone annex projecting at the centre of the facade.

The white marble stoup carries the motto "Tout se passe et rian ne dure, ne ferme choze tant soit dure" and the date 1507; its origin is unknown, perhaps the Sainte-Chapelle of Bourges or Saint-Ambroix abbey. The church keeps two further stoups, one 16th-century and one 14th-century.