La Londe-les-Maures
Church of the Nativity
Historic site and monument
Contact details
Place du 11 novembre
La Londe-les-Maures
04 94 01 55 00
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Open all year round
Languages spoken
French
Documentation
French
Presentation
This church was built when the 1st chapel, which was erected as a parish in 1788 (opposite the current church), fell into disrepair and was too small. Built from 1844 onwards by the parishioners themselves using stones extracted from the Pansard and Maravenne rivers, it was founded in 1847. Originally, it had no transept and a semi-dome-shaped chancel. The sacristy and side chapels were added in 1873 and the side aisles in 1922.
A basilica-type church with a central nave with an apse flanked by the bell tower and two side aisles. The bell tower, with its almost flat roof, has been fully restored and houses two bells, one dated 1872 (restored in 2018) and the other 1950. The main facade is on a gable wall with a triangular pediment, pierced by a rose window (since 2007) and a fairly simple portal with a stone frame surmounted by a slender entablature. Facing east. Each nave has 3 geminated bays with stained glass windows. On the north facade, the stained glass windows bear the initials SA for St André and SL for St Louis (a tribute to André Augustin Allègre, who donated the land on which the church was built, and Louis Marmotant, the artist who donated these two windows made in Auxerre in 1943). The heart is illuminated by two stained glass windows depicting the Virgin and Child and St Vincent (patron saint of winegrowers).
Furnishings: gilded wooden statues, notably of the Virgin and Child (from the first parish), St Pons (patron saint of the church), St André (from the Château de La Londe, a former Allègre property neighbouring the first parish), paintings representing the Stations of the Cross, ex-voto. Atypical Provencal church in that the chancel faces west.
Permanent, animated Provencal cot.
Exhibition on local civil and religious bells, on the restoration of the church's 1872 bell and on the church itself through postcards.
Exhibition panels presenting the restoration of the 1872 bell, other examples of London's religious and civil bell-ringing heritage, as well as the church and its evolution through a selection of postcards.
A basilica-type church with a central nave with an apse flanked by the bell tower and two side aisles. The bell tower, with its almost flat roof, has been fully restored and houses two bells, one dated 1872 (restored in 2018) and the other 1950. The main facade is on a gable wall with a triangular pediment, pierced by a rose window (since 2007) and a fairly simple portal with a stone frame surmounted by a slender entablature. Facing east. Each nave has 3 geminated bays with stained glass windows. On the north facade, the stained glass windows bear the initials SA for St André and SL for St Louis (a tribute to André Augustin Allègre, who donated the land on which the church was built, and Louis Marmotant, the artist who donated these two windows made in Auxerre in 1943). The heart is illuminated by two stained glass windows depicting the Virgin and Child and St Vincent (patron saint of winegrowers).
Furnishings: gilded wooden statues, notably of the Virgin and Child (from the first parish), St Pons (patron saint of the church), St André (from the Château de La Londe, a former Allègre property neighbouring the first parish), paintings representing the Stations of the Cross, ex-voto. Atypical Provencal church in that the chancel faces west.
Permanent, animated Provencal cot.
Exhibition on local civil and religious bells, on the restoration of the church's 1872 bell and on the church itself through postcards.
Exhibition panels presenting the restoration of the 1872 bell, other examples of London's religious and civil bell-ringing heritage, as well as the church and its evolution through a selection of postcards.
