Ennezat - Collégiale Saint-Victor et Sainte-Couronne

The monumental Collégiale Saint-Victor et Sainte-Couronne (now parish church) consists out of three architectural parts. The old romanesque church with a transept and a crossing tower, a later added narthex added and a gothic part.

Here, seen from the southeast not much more can be seen, than the comparably huge gothic part. The gothic choir, built from black (vulcanic) stones, is really immense!

While the romanesque church was built with a decade (1060/1070), it took hundreds of years and generations of architects and workmen, to finish the gothic part.

It all started, when the population "outgrew" the humble dimensions of the small romanesque church. First a narthex was added first. Around 1280 the the ambulatory and the apses of the old church were demolished - and the construction of the gothic part started.