EGLISE SAINTE CROIX

Initially, only the church buildings were erected, before the bell tower was added at the end of 1897, thanks to a loan of 10,000 francs. The whole, in the "Romanesque-Byzantine" style, was built according to the plans of M. Menard, an architect from Nantes. The monumental pulpit is a real eye-catcher. A cherub above the staircase gives us its date of birth: 1896. Its creator was a local stonemason, A. Léon des Ormeaux. His portrait and coat of arms are on the staircase, above a picture of the port of Croix de Vie, with the steeples of St-Gilles and Ste-Croix in the background. This pulpit is inhabited by a host of characters and symbolic figures.