église Saint-Étienne

English translation

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History

Church erected in modern style on the plans of Boudon, architect of Avignon. It replaced an old church destroyed by the Protestants, after having transformed it into a warehouse and arsenal. At the Revolution, members of the district of Uzès wished to establish their revolutionary tribunal there. When Napoleon returned it to worship in 1812, it was first a simple chapel dependent on the former cathedral of Uzès. It was erected as a subsidiary church in 1836. It is built in the form of a cross in the neo-Greek style of the 18th century, style known as Jesuit, with decorations of Ionic order. The curved facade is decorated with large vases from which flames gush forth, and a false balustrade set into the wall. It is covered with domes and half-domes. Arcatures cut by wrought ironwork railings separate the principal nave from the side aisles, and plain pilasters topped with capitals with volutes, adorned with fleurons and garlands. The bell tower, which belonged to the primitive church, destroyed during the Wars of Religion, is a rectangular tower, open at ground level for the passage of pedestrians. The arcatures are Romanesque, but the profile of the first and second string courses show the influence of Gothic.