Collegiate Church of Saint-Andre

The Collegiate Church of Saint-Andre, Grenoble is an area church, some time ago a university church, committed to Saint Andrew, in Grenoble, France. The congregation is situated on the Place Saint-Andre, Grenoble, before the previous Palace of the Parliament of the Dauphine. It is the previous private sanctuary of the Dauphins of the Viennois, established in 1228 to house their tombs. Its development was paid for by the wage of the silver mines of Brandes-en-Oisans close Alpe dHuez. Andre Dauphin de Bourgogne Count of Albon, Dauphin of the Viennois, had the congregation based on high ground as a dynastic place of internment after the Flood of Grenoble in 1219.

From 1349 on it was an imperial church of the French rulers. On June 20, 1468, King Louis XI gave the groups the privilege to select to all empty canonries. In 1562 it was to a great extent demolished by the Protestant troops of the Baron des Adrets amid the Reformation. The school was disbanded in 1790, amid the French Revolution, and the building turned into an area church in 1822. The building has been named a landmark historique since August 27, 2013.

Already, a few sections had been grouped exclusively steeple in 1908, west peak and tympanum in 1936, a western entryway in 1956. The chime tower is an element of the city's horizon and an image of the town. 56 meters tall, it was finished in the late thirteenth century and contains a chimes of three ringers. The automaton was thrown in 1693 and bears the arms of the executive Flodoard Moret Bourchenu. The other two ringers date from the nineteenth century.