Pierre-Marie Bossan (23 July 1814, in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

– 23 July 1888, in La Ciotat) was a French historicist architect, a pupil of Henri Labrouste, specialising in

ecclesiastical architecture Church architecture refers to the architecture of buildings of churches, convents, seminaries etc. It has evolved over the two thousand years of the Christian religion, partly by innovation and partly by borrowing other architectural styles as ...

Life and work

In 1844 he was appointed architect to the

diocese of Lyon The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: ''Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lyon''), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archbishops ...

, where his major work was the neo-Byzantine

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(1872–84), on a height dominating

. He also designed Lyon's Église Saint-Georges, an extension to the parish church at Ars-sur-Formans (1862–65) and churches at Régny, Neulise and Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or (1854–56), as well as the pilgrimage basilica of La Louvesc (1865) in the

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

Ardèche Ardèche (; oc, Ardecha; frp, Ardecha) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It is named after the river Ardèche and had a population of 328,278 as of 2019.Dauphiné. There are funerary monuments designed by Bossan at

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. He is buried in the Cimetière de Loyasse, Lyon.

Selected works

* 1854–56: Cloister of the Visitandines, Lyon * About 1855: Maison Blanchon, quai Fulchiron, Lyon. A house in Moorish taste * 1858–62: Église de l'Immaculée-Conception, Lyon * completed 1859: Petit séminaire de Meximieux (Ain), today the Hôtel de Ville * 1862–65 Basilica at

Ars-sur-Formans Ars-sur-Formans is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. Geography The village is in the south-western part of the Ain department 33 km north of Lyon and 10 km east of Villefranche-sur ...

, département de l'Ain * completed 1865: Église Sainte-Anne, Lyon. Unifinished; closed in 1938 and demolished 1939Jean Pelletier, ''Connaître son arrondissement, le 3eme'', éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire, pp. 42-43 * completed 1865: Église Saint-Maurice, Echallon * 1867: Construction begun on the parish church of

Régnié-Durette Régnié-Durette () is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. See also *Communes of the Rhône department The following is a list of the 208 communes of the Rhône department of France. This list does not includes the Lyon Met ...

, département of the Rhône; the structure was completed in 1895, after his death * 1872: Construction begun on

, Lyon. Inaugurated in 1896

Notes and references

External links

* L'œuvre de Pierre Bossan, 1891 b
Thiollier, Félix
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bossan, Pierre 1814 births 1888 deaths Architects from Lyon 19th-century French architects Historicist architects French ecclesiastical architects