Église Saint-Nicolas de Jonquières

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Saint-Nicolas Church is a parish Catholic church located in Jonquières, France. It is a small rural church that was built between the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century, and largely rebuilt after the Hundred Years War, in the first quarter of the 16th century, with a new consecration at the beginning of the year 1522. Outside, the Gothic style dominates.

Inside, it blends in with the flamboyant Gothic style, which is of a rustic bill in the nave and its sides, and more neat for the vault of the transept cross and the arch keys of the transept and the apse. There is no bell tower itself, but only a frame arrow; the portal is almost rough; and the rare carved capitals are of great simplicity. In architectural terms, the church of Saint-Nicolas is therefore of little interest, especially since the vaults of the nave and the lower side are neogothic pastiches of 1879.

All the richness of the church is its sixteen polychrome stained glass windows, which Abbé Deligny, parish priest of Jonquières, made himself between 1849 and 1859. Self-taught, it unfolds a very personal, naive style, influenced by art...