Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix

By 1833 the chapel of the hamlet of Ménilmontant was too small for its growing population; in 1853 a new church was declared of public utility. Louis-Jean-Antoine Héret began it in 1863; it was opened for worship in 1869 but finished only in 1880, the Commune having interrupted the work. It draws on the Romanesque of Poitou and Saintonge, with the metal frame of the nave vault left visible. The photograph shows a rose window above the chandeliers.