Chapel Saint-Jacques-et-Saint-Christophe d'Auvillers
The Chapel of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Christophe d'Auvillers is located in Neuilly-sous-Clermont. The chapel, has pre-Romanesque features, such as a single nave opening onto a flat chevet choir, that was later rebuilt in a primitive Gothic style. It is surmounted by a stone belfry with an octagonal slate spire. The chapel housed a white Carrara marble bas-relief: "The Madonna of Auvillers" by Augustine said Duccio (fifteenth century), that has now been replaced by a copy after the original was moved to the Louvre.
About this building
The Chapel of Saint-Jacques-and-Saint-Christophe d'Auvillers is located in Neuilly-sous-Clermont in the Hauts-de-France region. This 11th century building was formerly the church of the village of Auvillers until its attachment to Neuilly-sous-Clermont in 1829.
The chapel has pre-Romanesque features, such as a single nave, with Romanesque arches, that opens onto a choir with two flat chevet bays that has been rebuilt in a primitive Gothic style during the second half of the 12th century. The first span of the choir, flanked by two niches to the north and south is surmounted by a steeple of stone, topped with an octagonal arrow slate.
The chapel housed a white 15th century Carrara marble bas-relief: "The Madonna of Auvillers" by Augustine said Duccio, that has since been transported to the Louvre and replaced by a copy. There are many murals of the choir as well as the neo-Gothic stained-glass window of the chevet: in these you can see Saint Christopher and Saint James as well as the chapels dedicated to Saint James and Saint Christopher, patron of the travelers, to whom an annual mass is dedicated. The baptismal font also dates from the eleventh century. This church has a stone confessional and several wooden statues dating from the Renaissance, including that of St. James.
