Église Notre-Dame de Chambly

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The Notre-Dame de Chambly Church is a parish Catholic church located in the heart of Chambly, France. According to tradition, the impetus for its construction was given by Saint Louis, when he stayed in the city in 1248. The site is apparently not launched immediately, but only around 1260.

It begins with the choir, and ends with the nave about 1280. The choir and its chapels adopt a conservative party for the time and display a Gothic style radiating at its peak, as at the time of the construction of the Sainte-Chapelle, but the windows of the transept and the nave indicate the late radiant style. At the same time the beautiful homogeneity of the whole church, the coherence of the plan and the absence of marks of interruption of the works indicate a rapid progress of the construction site, and allow to conclude a completion about 1280.

With a length of 53 m and a width of 20 m, the church of Chambly represents one of the main radiant achievements of the region. The building is charmed by the clarity of its design, its regularity, its severe elegance and its fair proportions. His plan is not original, but doesn't repeat itself...