Église Notre-Dame de Villecresnes

About

Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption Church is a parish church located on Rue du Lieutenant-Dagorino in the commune of Villecresnes, Val-de-Marne, France. In 1097, a donation made in the territory of Villecresnes in favour of the abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs evokes a church, of which it remains the base of the bell tower and a stone wall. In the 13th century, a south collateral was built.

The village was destroyed during the Hundred Years' War, then by the Protestants in 1562, the Lorrains in the seventeenth. From 1859 to 1863 the foothills of the bell tower were redone. In 1981 the base of the bell tower and the west facade were restored in their 11th century appearance.

The church is decorated with a 1723 painting by the painter Ludovic Weijandt, copy of a work by Guido Reni, representing the adoration of the shepherds, and a statue listed as a historical monument, "The Virgin with the Child".