Chapelle Jeanne d'Arc, Gothic revival chapel in Thouars, France

Chapelle Jeanne d'Arc is a Gothic Revival chapel completed in 1889 in Thouars. Its light grey stone facade has a large pointed-arch window with circular rose tracery above a recessed double-door entrance with decorative ironwork, and a slender octagonal turret with a dark pointed roof at the left corner. A lower wing with a grey slate roof extends to the right, and the chapel closes a paved square with a stone fountain.

The neo-Gothic chapel was completed in 1889 as part of the Institution Jeanne-d'Arc, a private Catholic school run by the Sisters of the Retreat, which had up to 135 pupils in 1941. Abandoned in the late 1970s, the buildings were bought by the town of Thouars; only the chapel was kept, and the rest of the site became a landscaped car park.

The chapel has housed a contemporary art centre since 2010 and has held the French Ministry of Culture's "d'intérêt national" label since 2019. Artists shown there include Daniel Buren (2011), Françoise Pétrovitch (2014) and Elsa Sahal (2020), and it received between 5,000 and 10,000 visitors in 2022. Martial Déflacieux has directed it since 2023.

The chapel stands at the end of a paved square with a stone fountain, in Thouars in the Deux-Sèvres. Only the chapel was kept when the town bought the former school site in the late 1970s; the rest became a landscaped car park. It has housed the contemporary art centre since 2010, with changing exhibitions and 5,000 to 10,000 visitors a year in 2022.

The chapel was kept when the rest of the Institution Jeanne-d'Arc was demolished: the town of Thouars bought the abandoned buildings in the late 1970s, retained only the chapel and turned the rest of the site into a landscaped car park. The school it served had up to 135 pupils in 1941, run by Sisters of the Retreat.