Église Saint-Clément de Mâcon

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Saint-Clément Church is a Catholic church located in the former commune of Saint-Clément-lès-Mâcon attached in 1856 to Mâcon, Burgundy, France. It was rebuilt from 1852 to 1854, in the context of the arrival of the PLM and the erection of the enormous embankment of the railway that cut the old village by the middle, a few meters ahead of the former facade of the parish church by architect André Berthier (1811-1873) to the location of a 6th century funeral basilica built shortly after Mâcon became an episcopal city. This basilica hosted the burials of the first bishops of the diocese of Mâcon.

It is the only Merovingian funerary site known in southern Burgundy. Five buildings followed.