NOTRE-DAME-DE-L'ASSOMPTION COLLEGIATE CHURCH

Without being able to be visited, this collegiate (a church entrusted not to a parish but to a chapter of religious with more important functions) deserves a stop by the materials to which it has appealed: all chestnut tiles, it consists of three levels of awnings. Moreover, it is home to the largest and richest of wood remaining in France and thus becomes unavoidable. Realized in 1521, in oak, it closes the choir of the twelfth century. Observe also the twenty-six bas-reliefs, witnesses of the art of champagne of the day, which tell the life of the Virgin under flamboyant dais, as well as the steps of Christ's life. Do not hesitate to observe the rich statuary surrounding it: a haunted virgin of polychrome stone (sixteenth century), an education of the Virgin (sixteenth century), a Virgin of the Troyenne school (sixteenth century), a Annonunciation and Saint Flavy (sixteenth century), Sainte Anne (sixteenth century), or tumultuous stones (thirteenth century). Beware, she's in Villemaure-sur-Vannes.