Église Saint-Loup de Chappes

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The church Saint-Loup is located in the commune of Chappes, in the Aube department in northern France. The building has been classified as historic monuments since 1840.

Location: Chappes is about ten kilometers southwest of Troyes. The church is located in the village, on the left bank of the Seine, a few dozen meters from the bridge of Chappes.

History: Dedicated to Saint Loup, the parish was part of the great dean of Troyes and was at the snack [not clear] of Abbé de Montiéramey. The church is cited in 1117 as belonging to it [not clear]. The building is partly of the twelfth and sixteenth centuries (collateral and apse).

Furniture: It has 15th century statues: a Virgin with Child in painted limestone and another in polychrome limestone. There are also paintings on the wooden ceiling of the nave, five paintings separated by beams with the arms of the Dukes of Aumont and on the walls a liter of the eighteenth century or a century after the previous ones.

Related articles: List of historical monuments of the Aube