Saint Jacques - Saint Philippe church in Lentilles

Lentilles has always been considered as the most beautiful example of a Champagne timber-frame church. It owes this reputation to the parish leaders who have never hidden the external timber-frame structure and above all to its very obvious merits: refined architecture, perfect proportions, perfect design.

This latter quality is also highlighted by the magnificent shingle roofing on the facade and the spire and the use of elements that do not exist anywhere else: a gable surmounted by a statue of Saint James on the central span of the porch, the diamond shaped decoration of the ceiling, and the open oculi above the apse bays.

All this explains the fame of this church built without doubt in the first half of the 16th century. The building comprises, once past the porch, a five span nave flanked by side aisles ending in a flat wall and a five-sided choir bordered by two more recent sacristies.