Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Neuilly

Around 1540 a chapel was built by the Seine for the people of Port-Neuilly, who lived far from their parish church at Villiers. A larger church replaced it in 1778, and from 1827 Jacques Molinos and his son Auguste rebuilt it on the same site, a neoclassical church of great sobriety on a Latin-cross plan. Neuilly’s first municipal council met in its predecessor on 7 February 1790. The church keeps a white marble Saint John the Baptist by Adrien Fourdrin, dated 1858. The photograph shows a painting of Saint John the Baptist preaching, beneath a window of Saint Martin.