CATHÉDRALE SAINT-LUPERC

Situated at the highest point of the hill, in the centre of the town, this imposing building sculpts the charming silhouette of Éauze on the horizon, the administrative capital of Armagnac. Jean Marre, the initiator of the Saint-Luperc church, which he wanted to be as sumptuous as a cathedral, was given the honorary title of cathedral during the Second Empire, a title that it has retained symbolically to this day. The Saint-Luperc cathedral of Éauze is the first building of flamboyant gothic style in Gascony, a model which influenced the small neighbouring churches of Armagnac. Majestic by its slenderness, it measures 50.60 m long for 18 m wide and a height of 21.65 m. The single nave of seven bays, bordered by deep chapels placed between the buttresses, is extended by a pentagonal choir with cut-offs, highlighted by the stained glass windows and paintings by Nicolas Greschny. The stained glass windows of the choir and the southern wall were redone by Jean-Baptiste Anglade, a glass painter from Paris, born in Éauze from 1868 to 1878.