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  6. Church of Saint Nicholas of Coullemelle

 Church of Saint Nicholas of Coullemelle dans la Somme

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine religieux
Eglise néo-romane
Somme

Church of Saint Nicholas of Coullemelle

    Rue de l'Église 
    80250 Coullemelle
Église Saint-Nicolas de Coullemelle
Église Saint-Nicolas de Coullemelle
Église Saint-Nicolas de Coullemelle
Église Saint-Nicolas de Coullemelle
Église Saint-Nicolas de Coullemelle
Église Saint-Nicolas de Coullemelle
Église Saint-Nicolas de Coullemelle
Crédit photo : Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL) - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1918
Destruction of the old church
1924-1927
Reconstruction of the church
1927
Consecration of the work
29 septembre 1980
Classification of procession sticks
30 novembre 1994
Registration of the church
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

The Church (Cd. AC 74): inscription by decree of 30 November 1994

Key figures

Théodule Morel - Architect Co-conceptor of reconstruction plans.
Robert Petit - Architect Co-conceptor of reconstruction plans.
Pierre Ansart - Architect-Decorator Responsible for Art Deco interior decor.
Gérard Ansart - Architect-Decorator Head of the Notre-Dame-des-Arts Group.
Anne-Marie Roux-Colas - Sculptor Author of tympanum and sculptures.
Jean Gaudin - Mosaic Director of the Way of the Cross.
Révérend Père Bernadin Fernique - Glass painter Co-author of stained glass drawings.
Mgr Lecomte - Bishop of Amiens Consecrated the church in 1927.

Origin and history

The church Saint-Nicolas de Coullemelle, located in the Somme department in the Hauts-de-France region, was rebuilt between 1924 and 1927 on the ruins of the former church destroyed in 1918 by German artillery during the First World War. The project was led by architects Théodule Morel and Robert Petit, with a Boulonnais bell-stone structure and a stone neo-Roman sculpture of the Oise Valley. The building was consecrated in 1927 by Bishop Lecomte, bishop of Amiens, and protected as historical monuments in 1994.

The interior of the church is distinguished by its Art Deco decor, designed by the architects-decorators Pierre Ansart and his son Gérard Ansart, members of the Groupement de Notre-Dame-des-Arts d的Amiens. This artistic collective produced altars, frescoes in sgraffite, mosaics (including the path of the cross by Jean Gaudin), stained glass (drawings by Gérard Ansart and the Reverend Father Bernardin Fernique, executed by Pierre Turpin), as well as sculptures signed by Georges Legrand, Marceau Darras, Anne-Marie Roux-Colas and Roger de Villiers. Two 18th-century golden wooden procession sticks have been classified as historical monuments since 1980.

The tympanum of the Western portal, of neo-Roman style, presents a sculpture of the tetramorph made by Anne-Marie Roux-Colas, surrounded by yousures decorated with billets. The church, owned by the commune, embodies post-war reconstruction and the liturgical artistic renewal of the 1920s, mixing architectural tradition and decorative modernity. Its inscription in historical monuments in 1994 underlines its heritage value, both for its history and for its coherent artistic ensemble.

External links

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