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In 2024 > Nicolas MULLER

In 2016 > Hugo Pernet – Natives

Located in the middle of the cemetery, Boujeons church is a small church whose bell tower-porch, covered with a red metal talevanne, blazes in the sun while the glazed tiles of its imperial roof sparkle. Largely rebuilt in the 19th century (the bell tower in 1810 and the nave in 1843) it has preserved almost nothing of the original 17th century building.
The bell tower-porch opens onto a single nave separated from the liturgical choir by a pre-choir bay. The choir has a cul-de-four vault, the front choir is covered by a groined vault and the nave by a ceiling. The whole is lit by eight stained glass windows: two with geometric motifs illuminate the front choir and among the six which illuminate the nave, only two represent characters, one with Saint Joseph and the other with the Virgin. The decor is modest and the absence of furniture gives this small building a bare appearance. Here there is no altarpiece covered in gilding, no twisted columns or theatrical decor, no pulpits to preach to the sculpted panels…, apart from a few statues the church is bare.
Among the statues, the presence of a Virgin and Child, probably from the 17th century, should be highlighted. This seated Virgin holding a laughing Child Jesus on her knees reflects more the image of the happiness of the young mother with her child than that of the mother of a child-god.
The Nativity of the Virgin is the name of the church, but it is also the subject of the painting which is today in the choir after having been above the entrance door. It is undoubtedly a work from the end of the 18th century, inspired by apocryphal sources such as the Protevangelium of James and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew.

GPS : 46,748778 / 6,204610

In 2016 > John M. Armleder – INVISIBLE

Located at a place called Grange-Neuve, at the foot of the Grand-Côte forest massif, this chapel was built in 1861, taking over from a chapel already dedicated to Saint Théodule, called “de Villamont”, destroyed during the Revolution at the same time as the other buildings of the abbey of Mont-Sainte-Marie.
Of modest dimensions, it consists of a bell tower-porch, a nave, a choir and a small sacristy projecting outside the latter. Inside, three stained glass windows celebrate Saint Anthony, the education of the Virgin and, for that of the choir, the life of Saint Théodule, and in particular the two miracles attributed to him, a multiplication of grapes in Switzerland and the deliverance of a prisoner. Saint Théodule, patron saint of Valais winegrowers, is also celebrated by a statue and a painting.

GPS : 46,785110 / 6,271414

In 2022 > Lyse Fournier

In 2016 > Benoît Billotte – Claire-voie

Located on a belvedere at an altitude of 1000 meters at a place called “Le Perreu”, this chapel was built following a wish made by Joseph Marcellin Gellion, priest in Montperreux in 1871. This period was marked by the Prussians invading the region, this priest and the parishioners vowed to build a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes if the Virgin protected the parish. Their prayers were heard and no death occuted, no fighting, no destruction, no damage to people and homes during the war of 1870 in this town. Father Gellion died in 1873. Since the wish was granted, it was his successor, Father Auguste Donat Paquette, who undertook construction in 1889.
The stone was extracted from a quarry in the commune and the timber felled from a communal forest. Parishioners offered a certain number of days to prepare these materials for a contractor. All these acquisitions and constructions were carried out thanks to the generosity of many people. Our Lady of Lourdes was installed inside as well as a communion table made by Father Paquette. At that time, there was great devotion to the Virgin in this place. Several times a year a mass was celebrated there. For many years, the faithful went there in procession on August 15 for the blessing of children or at rogations in order to pray for the protection of the goods of the Earth aswell as in the month of May to recite the rosary. In 1983, lightning struck the bell tower as a warning not to forget this oratory and to restore it. In 1984, work was carried out: reconstruction of the local stone bell tower, replacement of the bell and installation of a door with a protective canopy.

GPS : 46,828923 / 6,342161

In 2022 > Geneviève Petermann

In 2016 > Peter Rösel – Feigenblatt, Feuille de figuier

Conveniently located in the center of the village of Crouzet, Sainte-Anne chapel is a small building covered by a gable roof topped by a pinnacle with an imperial roof. Despite some repairs carried out at the end of the 19th century, it still presents its primitive, rustic appearance. It consists of a single, blind nave covered by a barrel vault like the choir from which it is separated by a wooden grille serving as a rood screen carrying Christ on the cross, a statue of the Virgin and one of Saint John.
The wall of the apse is accompagnied by a traditional and curious altarpiece: 2 twisted columns on pedestals around which vine branches and bunches of grapes are pecked by birds support an entablature surmounted by 3 half-length sculptures and leaning on capitals with acanthus leaves.
Between these two columns a large painting representing the Education of the Virgin by Saint Anne with, at the bottom right, a church which may be the Sainte Anne chapel and the date 1692, without signature. Cherubs appear among the clouds. The whole thing is completely rustic and naive and could have been made by a local craftsman who imitated the altarpiece of a nearby building. But the dating remains uncertain, the date of 1692 of the altarpiece being undoubtedly only an indication of the construction of the chapel.

GPS : 46,703279 / 6,137415

In 2022 > Charlotte Moth

In 2016 > Hugo Schüwer-Boss – Entrelacs

The Church of Saint-Jacques and St-Christophe de Chaux-Neuve were consecrated on March 19, 1487 by Monsignor Henri Potin, bishop of Philadelphia, suffragan of Monsignor Charles de Neufchâtel, archbishop of Besançon. Enlarged over time, the last modification (the construction of the belltower) dates from 1686.
A church remarkable for its richness and its interior architecture, it has been listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments since 1926. Many pieces of furniture are classified as Historic Monuments (6 altarpieces, baptistery, wooden panels painted on both sides, pulpit, statues of St Peter in alabaster, of St Joseph in polychrome wood, wooden Calvary, bench of the faithful…). All ribbed vaulted with highly decorated bases, it has an important and varied heraldic decoration, in particular a magnificent coat of arms of the Habsburgs, owners of Franche-Comté for two centuries and several coats of arms of the Chalons.

GPS : 46,680515 / 6,132335

In 2016 > Christelle Fillod – Nightlight-Vadso 2016

There are no less than three religious buildings in Jougne which are dedicated to Saint-Maurice, this Roman officer who, according to tradition, was executed in Martigny in the 3rd century with the 6,500 men of the Theban legion for having refused to massacre the local Christian populations: the church of Jougne, the 12th century chapel of La Ferrière and this chapel.
We know neither the date nor the circumstances of the construction of this second, relatively recent Saint-Maurice chapel. It is a simple, rectangular building, attached to a private house, in the village, at the edge of the road which crosses it: a small entrance porch opens onto a single nave separated from the choir by a wooden communion table; a ceiling covers the nave and the choir.
Semi-circular windows illuminate the whole. In the choir, an altar (18th century) whose altarpiece is decorated with two gilded wooden statuettes. This rather modest set of furniture probably comes from an older building.
A Stations of the Cross (19th century engravings), two plaster Saint-Sulpician statues, a harmonium and wooden benches make up most of the furniture and decor of this chapel.

Text by Joël Guiraud

GPS : 46,742286 / 6,379773

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

GPS : 46,828083 / 6,311879

In 2018 > Le FRAC avec Rodolphe Huguet – 9 erreurs

In 2016 > Séverine Hubard – Bis bizz, la chapelle aux insectes

The chapel at Maison du Bois is named after Saint Barbara, patroness of dangerous professions or work causing violent death such as : artillerymen, sappers, miners and firefighters. She is traditionally represented with the tower in which, according to legend, her father had her locked up. Built in the 17th century, this chapel was for a long time a place of prayer and pilgrimage, before falling into disuse after the First World War.
In 1941, parish priest Father Humbert restored the chapel to its former glory as a sign of gratitude for the return of prisoners held in Germany. He also bought a small bell for the village church which was installed in the bell tower built in 1948.
This chapel, restored in 2013 by the municipality of Brey and Maison du Bois, consists of a single nave. In the choir space stands a small wooden high altar with a rotating tabernacle and a statue of Saint Barbara. The structure is covered by a two-sided roof and crowned with a small bell tower.
A monumental stone cross, erected in the 15th century, is attached to the chapel. It is decorated with two sculptures, one of which is an identical reconstruction of the original (disappeared in 1980) created during the rehabilitation of the chapel in 2013.

GPS : 46,739577 / 6,230343

In 2016 > Jacqueline Benz – D’autre part

The Malbuisson church is a 17th, 18th and 20th century church. It is dedicated to Saint Claude. It was built in 1732 on the banks of Lake Saint-Point (also called “Lake Malbuisson”) on a primitive chapel from 1618 and on the foundations of an old chapel from 1705.

GPS : 46,801513 / 6,307757

In 2016 > Dominique Petitgand – Les cordes vocales

The parish church named after the Presentation of Notre-Dame was built in the 19th century (1843) to replace an older chapel located inside the cemetery. Made up of a square bell tower, a single nave and a choir, this church follows a usual 19th century layout: a copy of models from past centuries. We can highlight the presence of a baptismal font in brown painted wood enhanced with gold. It is an element coming from an older building, perhaps from the old chapel.

GPS : 46,773372 / 6,351360