Église de l'Assomption de Valloire, church building in Valloire, Savoie, France

The Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Valloire is a Baroque church built of grey stone from the region, with a single nave and a low transept forming a Latin cross. Its facade carries painted panels with diamond patterns, three mural panels and a circular window framed by a stone sunburst; a square bell tower with a clock and a pointed spire stands beside it. Inside are eight side altars and a flat-ended choir under a cul-de-four vault.

A first church, traditionally dedicated to Saint Peter though unproven, stood here; Valloire itself is first mentioned in 1038. In the early 17th century the building was too small, and bishops Milliet (1609) and Charles Bobba (1622) ordered it enlarged, then rebuilt. Work began in 1660 under Father Dupré, and the Baroque church was consecrated on 22 July 1682 by bishop Hercule Berzet. It was classified a monument historique on 20 September 1945.

Local tradition holds that each parishioner carried a stone to mass for the 1660 rebuild, and on feast days they formed a chain to pass them along. The walnut main altarpiece, carved in 1673 by François Rymellin, is flanked by two-metre polychrome statues of Saint Peter and Saint Thecla, a local saint said to have brought two fingers of John the Baptist back from the Holy Land.

The church stands in the village of Valloire, in the Savoie department. Its facade was renovated in the 2000s and 2006, along with the altars and paintings. Visitors enter a single nave with a low transept in the shape of a Latin cross, where eight side altars line the walls.

The walnut main altarpiece was carved in 1673 by François Rymellin, a sculptor from Durbach in Baden whose name was only identified in March 1989 through research in the Savoie departmental archives. He stayed in Valloire for over eleven years, and his son Charles-François was baptised there.