à GERNELLE

Chapelle Sainte-Barbe de Gernelle

The church has a monumental organ that is said to have come from the collegiate church of Saint Pierre de Mézières. The church of Notre-Dame is located in the centre of the village. It has an elongated plan. The nave with three naves of six bays is preceded by a western massif composed of the bell tower framed by two chapels, the one on the right of which houses the spiral staircase. The choir is composed of a straight bay and a semicircular apse with a polygonal volume. The sacristy is set in the angle formed by the choir and the left aisle. The building is built of schist rubble but the chains, bays and cornices are made of cut stone from Dom-le-Mesnil. The floor of the nave is covered with large limestone slabs and that of the choir (as well as the liturgical choir which extends over the last bays of the nave) by a checkerboard of black and grey veined marble tiles. The interior faces of the walls are rendered. The walls are pierced with semicircular bays. The main façade with an ordered elevation has three semicircular portals framed by Tuscan pilasters: the smaller side portals are each surmounted by an oculus and gables uncovered in a gendarme hat and the central portal by three levels of semicircular bays. The central vessel of the nave is covered with a false semicircular vault supported by large depressed barrel arcades with Tuscan columns; the side aisles are covered with false ribbed vaults.
Located to the south and outside the village, the small rectangular building is built against the cemetery wall. It is built of rubble with a stone chain and covered by a slate pavilion roof. The main façade is entirely open and enclosed by a wrought iron gate; this part is protected by a small awning which extends the roof.

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D57
08440 GERNELLE

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