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Eglise Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Peigney
📍 Peigney, Haute-Marne
· 52200 Peigney
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Dedicated to Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, Peigney church has always been a branch of the Champigny-lès-Langres parish. It became a vicarage chapel in 1860, then a parish church in 1862, and has remained a parish church ever since.
The church at Peigney features a choir with a lanceolate triplet at the chevet, rustic hooked capitals under the vaults and a washbasin dating from the first half of the 13th century. The furnishings include an early 16th-century Eucharistic cupboard and an 18th-century gilded and painted wrought-iron rood beam under the triumphal arch. The church choir has been listed on the supplementary inventory since July 27, 1921.
The statuary includes a 16th-century polychrome wooden Saint Catherine of Alexandria and an 18th-century polychrome and gilded wooden Virgin and Child, both listed as M.H. on June 5, 1967. The nave, which was in poor condition at the end of the French Revolution, was topped by a single bell. The present bell tower and sacristy were built from scratch in 1825 by Georges Martin, a building contractor from Langon. But the gutter wall to the right of the nave, which was intended to support the bell tower, turned out to have been built without foundations. It had to be completely rebuilt for the occasion, as did the portal. The three dedication stones visible on either side of the portal on the façade, and the rebuilding of the small-scale masonry visible from the outside, bear witness to this work. The sacristy, built at the same time, contains the relic of the skull of Abbé Blanchard, guillotined in Langres.
When the choir was re-roofed in 1857, the soil from the old cemetery surrounding the church was removed by almost a metre, "to be transported to the new cemetery" (today's cemetery). As a result, the lower walls on the north side of the church, deteriorated by the removal of this soil, had to be consolidated.|From the cemetery, looking up to the chevet gable, we can see the figure of a canon in a Phrygian cap, the figure of an insider, who could represent one of the treasurers of the Langres Chapter in the 13th century, and probably the sponsor of the building.
The church at Peigney features a choir with a lanceolate triplet at the chevet, rustic hooked capitals under the vaults and a washbasin dating from the first half of the 13th century. The furnishings include an early 16th-century Eucharistic cupboard and an 18th-century gilded and painted wrought-iron rood beam under the triumphal arch. The church choir has been listed on the supplementary inventory since July 27, 1921.
The statuary includes a 16th-century polychrome wooden Saint Catherine of Alexandria and an 18th-century polychrome and gilded wooden Virgin and Child, both listed as M.H. on June 5, 1967. The nave, which was in poor condition at the end of the French Revolution, was topped by a single bell. The present bell tower and sacristy were built from scratch in 1825 by Georges Martin, a building contractor from Langon. But the gutter wall to the right of the nave, which was intended to support the bell tower, turned out to have been built without foundations. It had to be completely rebuilt for the occasion, as did the portal. The three dedication stones visible on either side of the portal on the façade, and the rebuilding of the small-scale masonry visible from the outside, bear witness to this work. The sacristy, built at the same time, contains the relic of the skull of Abbé Blanchard, guillotined in Langres.
When the choir was re-roofed in 1857, the soil from the old cemetery surrounding the church was removed by almost a metre, "to be transported to the new cemetery" (today's cemetery). As a result, the lower walls on the north side of the church, deteriorated by the removal of this soil, had to be consolidated.|From the cemetery, looking up to the chevet gable, we can see the figure of a canon in a Phrygian cap, the figure of an insider, who could represent one of the treasurers of the Langres Chapter in the 13th century, and probably the sponsor of the building.
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