Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul de Pomponne, Catholic church in Pomponne, France

Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul de Pomponne is a stone church with a pale cream facade and brown tiled roofs. A square tower with dark slate siding and louvered openings rises from the crossing, topped by a small lantern and a cross. The nave has lower side aisles with round-arched windows, a rounded apse with a conical roof stands at the far left, and a side chapel with its own pitched roof projects to the right.

The church originated as a dependency of the Notre-Dame priory, founded in 1176 by Jehan de Pomponne, lord of the place. The nave dates from the 13th century, while the choir and chapels were altered in the 19th century. In 1842 the bell tower was demolished and replaced by a campanile; the bell dates from 1855. The priory was also destroyed in that period to make way for a road, and buttresses were added to the south side.

A Confraternity of Saint Veronica is attested here in 1514, after a local lord reportedly brought a fragment of Veronica's veil from Italy and gave it to the priory. A pilgrimage was established, first on Mardi Gras and, from 1992, on the second Sunday of September. An oratory with a statue of the saint stands at the site of the Sainte-Véronique spring.

The church stands in Pomponne, in Seine-et-Marne. Truck traffic on the rue de Paris weakened the building, so the commune began restoration work in 2011; buttresses had earlier been added to the south side after the priory was demolished for a road. Visitors should time a visit outside services.

The 2011 restoration, prompted by trucks on the rue de Paris, uncovered Gallo-Roman wall foundations, pottery shards from the 1st to 14th centuries and medieval and 18th-century burials. The bell now in the tower dates from 1855, after the 1842 demolition of the old bell tower.