Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste des Noyers
The very old Saint Jean-Baptiste church of Noyers de Gaillefontaine dates from the beginning of the 12th century. It has some exceptional furniture items: a polychrome life-size statue of Saint John the Baptist of the sixteenth and baptismal fonts from the eleventh to twelfth century adorned with small columns.
About this building
The Church of Saint John the Baptist was probably built at the beginning of the twelfth century, in the hamlet of Noyers. The building was threatened with destruction in the when the hamlet was absorbed into the municipality of Gaillefontaine. However, protests by the locals saved the building.
The dating of the building is possible thanks to one of the beams of the nave, which bears the precise date of 1141. The church consists of a single nave, heavily renovated in the eighteenth century and covered with a paneled vault. In its extension, there is a flat choir with bays whose construction dates back to the thirteenth century. A polygonal bell tower stands above the entrance wall.
The building has several items of classified furniture, including a life-size polychrome stone statue of St. John the Baptist dating from the sixteenth century, and baptismal fonts in monolithic stone from the eleventh to twelfth century; they are made of a vat decorated with four corners of columns surmounted by capitals decorated with spearheads.
