In 2016 > Delphine Reist – LES MINUTES MÉCANIQUES
The first church of the village of ‘Grangettes’ was built in 1635. Restored and remodeled over the centuries, it still stands today in the middle of the cemetery, facing Lake Saint-Point. It consists of a square bell tower (17th century) covered by an imperial roof opening onto a vessel with three naves of two groin-vaulted bays and a choir with a flat apse covered by a vaulted ceiling.
The choir and the side aisles are lit by 6 bays with figurative stained glass windows made by the master glassmaker Alfred Georgeon (20th century). Buttresses reinforce the building on the exterior. This small church is equipped with interesting wooden liturgical furniture made in the 18th century by carpenter-sculptors, certainly local, who integrated the particularities of the Baroque style to reinvent a Baroque religious art of Haut-Doubs. The entire main altar-altarpiece, in painted and gilded carved wood, is a good example of this Haut-Doubs baroque combining the architectural vocabulary of antiquity with cherubs and scenes from the Bible.
Text by Joël Guiraud
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