Church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
The Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church is located in La Motte-Tilly in Champagne. The choir and transept date back to the 16th century. Built in the renaissance style, they were part of the chapel of the first Motte-Tilly castle, that belonged to the local noble family, the Raguier. This church is remarkable for the chapel dedicated to Saint Margaret, which houses the marble tomb of Father Joseph Marie Terray, by the sculptor Félix Lecomte, listed in 1919
About this building
The Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church has been listed since 1925 in the inventory of historical monuments. It is located in La Motte-Tilly in Champagne. The oldest parts of the church - the choir and overflowing transept - seem to date back to the early sixteenth century. They were part of the private chapel attached to the first castle of Motte-Tilly, that belonged the local nobility, the Raguier family.
Built in the Renaissance style, we can admire the vaults of ogives on lamp ends decorated with foliage, masks and cherubs heads. The building is designed on the basis of a Latin cross plan with a single nave (rebuilt following a fire in the eighteenth century) that is extended by an apse. An eighteenth-century oak-paneled door, with a medallion monogram, separates the nave from the choir.
This church is remarkable for the chapel dedicated to Saint Margaret, which houses the marble tomb of the abbot Joseph Marie Terray (Controller of Finance Louis XV) due to the sculptor Félix Lecomte, classified in 1919.In addition, this church contains 29 objects listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage including a seventeenth-century altarpiece with fluted columns and woodwork painted faux marble in the choir.
