What a fantastic collection of churches! We’ve never been up in that region — suppose we should go — there’s currently a car up there that we want to look at, so maybe that will be the incentive đŸ™‚
Good to meet you yesterday and I hope we didn’t interfere too much with the works programme.
Fraussie
January 7th, 2013 at 11:36 pm
They’re beautiful, aren’t they? Definitely worth the trip.
Yes, we enjoyed meeting you yesterday too and you were a welcome diversion!
Jane’s cousin
January 8th, 2013 at 10:45 pm
They’re fascinating. I don’t recall ever seeing any pictures or drawings of this kind of church architecture before. Thanks for sharing those pictures!
Jane’s cousin
January 8th, 2013 at 10:48 pm
I wonder what the interiors are like and if they are still in use
Fraussie
January 9th, 2013 at 1:12 am
Yes, they are still in use. Next Monday, I’ll post photos of the inside, because we visited them all except the chapel because it was closed.
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These churches are so unusual and very beautiful but they just don’t look like churches to me. I feel like they should be barns, it’s all wrong to see the half timbered look on a church! I thought I knew Champagne quite well too and I’d never heard of these either. Such a fabulous discovery, thanks for sharing them Rosemary.
Rosemary Kneipp
July 3rd, 2015 at 3:19 pm
They are quite extraordinary, aren’t they? Normandy would be full of them, except for WW2.
Wow, they are really beautiful.
And so little known. We had been going to Champagne for years without even hearing about them.
What a fantastic collection of churches! We’ve never been up in that region — suppose we should go — there’s currently a car up there that we want to look at, so maybe that will be the incentive đŸ™‚
Good to meet you yesterday and I hope we didn’t interfere too much with the works programme.
They’re beautiful, aren’t they? Definitely worth the trip.
Yes, we enjoyed meeting you yesterday too and you were a welcome diversion!
They’re fascinating. I don’t recall ever seeing any pictures or drawings of this kind of church architecture before. Thanks for sharing those pictures!
I wonder what the interiors are like and if they are still in use
Yes, they are still in use. Next Monday, I’ll post photos of the inside, because we visited them all except the chapel because it was closed.
[…] week, I Â posted photos of the outside of eleven half-timbered churches in the area known as “Wet” Champagne. I thought you might like to see what they are […]
[…] then on a four-week trip to Croatia in the summer that included 9 countries. After that, we went to “Wet” Champagne, then back to the Loire where we found Closerie Falaiseau. And we spent Christmas in […]
These churches are so unusual and very beautiful but they just don’t look like churches to me. I feel like they should be barns, it’s all wrong to see the half timbered look on a church! I thought I knew Champagne quite well too and I’d never heard of these either. Such a fabulous discovery, thanks for sharing them Rosemary.
They are quite extraordinary, aren’t they? Normandy would be full of them, except for WW2.