Visite Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Mont-Notre-Dame

Church of the 12th and 13th centuries classified as a historic monument in 1886, declassified in 1926 after the destruction of the First World War, except for the crypt and the western wall of the northern arm of the transept. It was rebuilt in 1929-1933 by the architects Georges Grange and Louis Bourquin on the site of the old medieval collegiate church, dynamited by the Germans in August 1918. The current building, in ashlar, is characterized by an imposing silhouette and stylistic references mixing Romanesque and Gothic influences. The interior is adorned with a diversified decorative repertoire: sculpted decoration (Stations of the Cross and pulpit) by the Reims sculptor Ernest Sediey, frescoes by Eugène Chapleau, stained glass windows after cartoons by René Bour made by the Parisian master glass artist Jacques Damon. It is one of the most important buildings of the religious art revival of the 1900s.

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