Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Péronne

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Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church is a religious building, located in Peronne, in the French department of La Somme, consecrated in 1525. Of the six churches that the city had before 1789, it was the only one remaining.

From the 16th century to 1914: Built on the site of a small chapel that already existed in 1101, the church Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Péronne was built of limestone from 1509 to 1525; The bell tower was built in 1540. In 1632, a brotherhood of Mount Carmel was founded which had its seat in the church. At the time of the French Revolution, the law stipulated that there should be only one parish church per commune, so that in Peronne, only the church Saint-Jean-Baptiste survived. Closed during the Terror, it was returned to worship under the Executive Board in 1795. Restoration of the building was completed in 1829. In the 19th century the church owned several paintings by the painter Charles-Henri Michel: in 1847 the church factory bought its painting, The Compassion of the Virgin; In 1854, he painted for the Church of the Baptism of Christ by Saint John, and in 1859, the State purchased it from the painter The Crucification and placed it in the church. During the siege...