Saint-Jacques-Saint-Christophe de la Villette

On the road to Compostela, the church succeeded one of the sixteenth century. The architect Paul-Eugène Lequeux built it in 1844 in the style of an early Christian basilica, closely comparable to Sant’Apollinare in Ravenna, with Doric columns and a coffered ceiling of painted wood. Damaged in 1871 and again in 1918, it was restored and enlarged from 1930 by René Dubos. The photograph of 2023 looks down the nave between the columns and under the painted coffers.