Eglise St Marcel

The parish church Saint-Marcel changed into constructed between 1762 and 1767 on the website of a overdue Gothic sanctuary, in line with the plans of Pierre-Francois Paris slightly changed with the aid of the masters of labor. "An vital witness to the transition between late Baroque and neoclassicism", this constructing, restored from 1972 to 1975, has a enormous west facade of reduce stone of superb sobriety.

The bell tower, additionally in stone, slightly leaning, changed in 1850/51 the Gothic spire. Inside, the wood of the choir stalls and the dazzling organ case and the polychrome richness of the altars mood the alternatively cold ecosystem of the architecture. From 1534 to 1792, the church additionally served as collegiate bankruptcy of canons Moutier-Grandval hunted by way of the Reformation. The structure of the existing church is sober, accelerated, very feature of the remaining quarter of the 18th century. The bell tower, but, dates from 1851.

This Saint-Marcel church incorporates several works of art: a statue of Saint-Marcel in polychrome wood from 1510, altars very representative of the 18th century. Finally a superb organ that comes from Arlesheim ,and which was added returned to Delemont. The instrumental element became restored through the Neuchatel manufacturing unit of Chezard-Saint-Martin in 1984. The organ's buffet is a masterpiece of the 18th century.