Gérard Fromanger’s designs for a series of windows in a 12th-century church in a sleepy French hamlet have caused a rumpus, after the local archbishop decided that the French artist’s ideas were just not religious enough. Fromanger was asked by Jean-Claude Chalumet, a local businessman, to overhaul the 19th-century windows for the church in Anzy-le-Duc. But residents took against the revamp and the local organisation Terre et Famille wrote to the bishop of Autun, Benoît Rivière, to complain about the move. Rivière’s spokesman told our sister paper Le Journal des Arts that the bishop “explained to the artist that he is not anti-contemporary art, but that Fromanger’s project did not provide an adequate platform for the Christian faith”. Fromanger declined to comment on the unholy row.