Église de Saint-Genès-de-Lombaud

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Notre-Dame-de-All-Espoir Church is a Catholic church located in the commune of Saint-Genès-de-Lombaud, in the Gironde department, France.

Location: The church is located in the heart of the village, on the way to Bourg, in front of the church road.

History: The church was built in the 11th century on the site of a Gallo-Roman place of worship, excavations around the church having made it possible to find fragments of mosaics, Roman tiles and a small votive altar. In the 12th century, it was rebuilt and became the seat of a pilgrimage to the Black Virgin. The lower part of the western facade, and the flat bedside choir are made of Romanesque-sized stones and are of the twelfth century. Some parts of the southern gourd have been mounted in small preromans. Originally, the nave was not vaulted and covered with a roof whose structure was to be visible and the choir covered with a arch over a cross of warheads. With the influx of pilgrims, the church was enlarged, in the 13th century, by a low side of two vaulted spans, one over cross of warheads, the other in cradle. In the 17th century, a door was opened in the south facade and in the 18th century...