Chapelle de Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée Conception / Chapel of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception - Tours (France)
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Monumental Neo-Gothic Chapel of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (Chapelle de Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée Conception), designed by architect Gustave Guérin in 1848, is the key architectural element of former Ursuline convent in Tours.
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Location: Centre-Val-de-Loire, France
Date Posted: 08/07/2016
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Monumental Neo-Gothic Chapel of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (Chapelle de Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée Conception), designed by architect Gustave Guérin in 1846, is the key architectural element of former Ursuline convent (Couvent d'ursulines Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption) in Tours.
The single nave Chapel was built in 1846-1848 according to project of the renown Tours municipal architect of the 19th century Gustave Guérin at the site of older, after Revolution (ca 1798) destroyed Church Our Lady of the Assumption (l'église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption). Chapel, consecrated ceremonially on December 7, 1848, was later (1912) decorated by stained glass windows by master glassmaker Julien Leopold Lobin. Nowadays is chapel together with rest of the former Convent owned by municipality and used for educational purposes (Conservatoire Francis Poulenc).