Chauffour-lès-Bailly Church

This parish church comes into the category of a mixed building, since the choir, transept and the last span of the nave are built in stone in the flamboyant gothic style, typical of the Troyes region. The timber-frame parts are reduced to just the facade and the first four spans of the single nave.

The nave is beautiful in appearance, covered with a soaring Gothic vaulted ceiling. All the wooden parts are carefully decorated with mouldings and carved motifs embellish the vertical pillars. Lighting is via windows of a variety of shapes: semi-circular bays to the south, trilobed bays to the north, with an oculus in the first span.

In front of the facade there is a rustic porch, overhung by a gable. A very steep flat tile roof covers the timber-frame spans.

This construction does not seem to predate the flamboyant sections and doubtless it must be dated from the first half of the 16th century, judging by the careful carpentry work and the gothic spirit of the architecture that is still evident.

This church would benefit from restoration as it is already well-known to art lovers for its magnificent Troyes school Madonna and Child.