Église Saint-Georges de Vesoul

Vesoul

Saint-Georges is a church of the Enlightenment, built in a single burst from 1735 to 1745 to plans by Mathieu Duchesne and Father Archange, by the Besançon architect Jean-Pierre Galezot and the chief engineer Jean Querret. It is a hall church: the nave and the aisles rise to the same height, over a length of 43.25 metres and a width of nearly thirty, behind a facade of three superimposed orders whose central door is flanked by two Doric columns. In 1772 the town commissioned the organ from Joseph Rabiny, who completed it in 1776. The church keeps works older than itself: an Entombment made around 1550 at the expense of Jean Sardon, six figures around Christ; an Ecce Homo by an unknown artist, from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries; a Notre-Dame Libératrice of Salins dated 1639. Then came the Revolution, and with it a brief and singular destiny. The Constitutional Church, born of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, gave the Haute-Saône a bishop with his seat in Vesoul: he was the parish priest of Saint-Georges, Jean-Baptiste Flavigny, a son of the town, born in 1732, consecrated on 10 April 1791 by the constitutional Bishop of Paris, Jean-Baptiste Gobel. Saint-Georges became a cathedral. It remained one for ten years: in 1801, with the Concordat, Flavigny resigned, and the church became once again a mere parish church. The former bishop, who had been the parish priest of Saint-Georges before becoming its bishop, died in his native town in 1813.

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Getting there : Place de l'Église, 70000 Vesoul, in the old town. Opening times and free entry to be checked; guided tours by appointment with the Vesoul tourist office.

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

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