Saint Vincent Church

The construction of the Saint Vincent Church, in a southern Gothic style, spanned throughout the 14th century in Carcassonne. Its nave and its vaults were rebuilt in the 18th century.

The emblematic building of the Ville basse is enclosed in its narrow streets.

Its bell tower is a 54m high square-based tower. This tower was used by the mathematicians Delambre and Méchain in the 18th century to calculate the length of the terrestrial meridian.

This is an impressive building with a nave over 20 meters wide and 60 meters long, without a transept.

On site, look at the Western portal. You will notice stone lace and a virgin in gilded wood from the 17th century.

The great organ that is in the gallery at the end of the nave, above the west portal, is an instrument built between 1736 and 1740 by Christophe Moucherel, already famous at the time for a similar masterpiece achieved at the Cathedral of Saint Cecilia of Albi, recently completed.

From 2001 to 2005, Jean Daldosso de Gimont (Gers), did an outstanding restoration work of the instrumental part and the sideboard, which regained its original polychromy. The mechanics, the bellow, and the plumbing were entirely restored in their state in 1875.

As a result, the Saint Vincent Church regained an exceptional organ, by both its sounds and its historical value.