The Church of Saint-Médard stands at 141 Rue Mouffetard in Paris's 5th arrondissement. A papal bull from Pope Alexander III documents the church in 1163, and the present building began in the early or mid-fifteenth century and continued into the eighteenth. Its style is Flamboyant Gothic with Neoclassical additions.
The nave and west front date mainly from the mid-fifteenth century, and the upper facade has a large Flamboyant window. The Renaissance-style choir was built between 1562 and 1620. In 1784 Louis-François Petit-Radel modified the choir and added the axial Chapel of the Virgin. The carved wooden pulpit of 1718 is its classical centerpiece, and the organ case from 1644 to 1646 is one of the oldest in Paris.
The church closed in 1793 and was returned to Catholic use in 1801.
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