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Sainte-Anne Church
Religious building, Listed or registered (CNMHS), Historic site and monument
in Sainte-Anne
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The layout of the streets and the square of the village of Sainte-Anne was designed at the end of the 1720s in accordance with the prescriptions of the king's great voyer agent, who forbade extending the village beyond a quadrilateral 120 feet wide by 150 feet long. The first church in the 18th century was destroyed by the cyclone of 1817. Rebuilt later, the building, already too small after 1848, was enlarged on the apse side. There were an apse and two chapels on either side.
The façade...The layout of the streets and the square of the village of Sainte-Anne was designed at the end of the 1720s in accordance with the prescriptions of the king's great voyer agent, who forbade extending the village beyond a quadrilateral 120 feet wide by 150 feet long. The first church in the 18th century was destroyed by the cyclone of 1817. Rebuilt later, the building, already too small after 1848, was enlarged on the apse side. There were an apse and two chapels on either side.
The façade was redrawn in 1860, with columns evoking an archaic Baroque style. The church was blessed in 1866 by the parish priest of Le Marin.
The church square, the scene of the fighting against the English troops in January 1862, became a market place from the 19th century. Major restoration work began in 2001.
The church reopened in 2008.
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