Gellin - Église de la Présentation-de-Notre-Dame

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The Gel­lin church re­placed an older build­ing deemed un­san­it­ary in the 19th cen­tury. Built in 1843 to the plans of the ar­chi­tect César Au­guste Pompée, this church ad­opts in many re­spects a clas­sic type in the re­li­gious ar­chi­tec­ture of Haut-Doubs: a bell tower-porch covered with an im­per­ial roof pre­cedes the three bays of the nave which open onto the choir. Cyl­indrical columns sep­ar­ate the bays of the nave from the aisles.
Bays pierced in the walls of each of the aisle bays as well as in those of the apse of the choir, light the in­terior of the church. Cyl­indrical columns sup­port the groin vaults of the three ves­sels and em­phas­ize the slender ap­pear­ance of the whole. All the walls are covered with pan­el­ing, old for the choir and re­cent for the side aisles. The walls of the apse of the side aisles are oc­cu­pied by al­tarpieces with paint­ings: the Present­a­tion of Our Lady in the temple (the name of the church) on the left and, per­haps Saint Christina of Tire on the right. A gabled roof cov­ers the nave and the right bay of the choir, the apse hav­ing its own roof. The ex­ter­ior walls are partly covered with metal pro­tec­tion plates in­stalled dur­ing a re­cent res­tor­a­tion.

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