Église Saint-Léger de Saint-Léger-Vauban

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Saint-Léger de Saint-Léger-Vauban is a church located in Saint-Léger-Vauban, France.

Location: The church is located in the French department of Yonne, in the commune of Saint-Léger-Vauban.

Description: The church was rebuilt in the 15th century to replace an older building whose bell tower supported by four pillars preserves parts of the 14th century. The choir was Gothic, and in front of the 18th century carved altar, artists Serge Jamet and Marc Hénard (1919-1992) made a ceramic of 4,000 enamelled tiles. This ceramic offers a condensation of the humanitarian values of Christianity. Next to the choir, the parish priest in 1625, Philibert Bussière, built a small chapel whose blond wood panels were carved by Marc Hénard. The chapel of the Virgin houses a fresco painted in 1958 by Jean Bouchery above the altar dedicated to the Madonna. Inside the church, a niche houses a Saint Benoît in stone by Marc Hénard, near the Notre-Dame gate consisting of wooden panels representing Notre-Dame des Clefs, Notre-Dame de Bétharram and Notre-Dame de Boulogne, also carved by Hénard.