It is always a moving history that the one of our
old churches of countryside. The one of Our-lady of the Chambon
doesn't escape the rule: as most churches vellaveses, it changed.
It was first of all rejuvenated to the time of l'art novel, to XIème
centuries. What
remains some permits to represent itself her as it was then, drawing
on soil, a Latin cross with only one nave of three bays, probably,
longer as all case that her the East nowadays. Arms of the cross
were constituted by a transverse vessel, the transept, overflowing
of every side on the width of the nave. It remains to indicate him
four columns. The crossing, or gone central of the transept, prolonged
himself to the East by a bedhead or apse, preserved fully, whose
semicircular tracing formed five flaps coupes inside where was the
altar. The main facade probably decorated itself of a portal to
voussureses and columns. A bell-tower rose presumably on the dome
of the transept. It was a beautiful model of small church ru have,
that has sudden vicissitudes of history chambonnaise of the XVIèmes
and XVIIèmes centuries. In 1680, the bishop of the Velay
prescribed to restore it but it didn't make himself without delay
since the new bell-tower carries the date of 1779. While restoring
it one reduced it in length while suppressing two bays; in width
also by the suppression of an arm of the transept. The parochial
cemetery that surrounded him disappeared before 1910. The ancient
tower said the tower of the strong part made room it as in 1932
to a restored cure. A new building has been annexed, in 1953, to
the ancient church under shape of a perpendicular nave. Its thick
work perfectly harmonizes with the ancient church: same height,
same device of construction, same cover of lauzes, bays and doors
in full-hanger.
What
remains some permits to represent itself her as it was then, drawing
on soil, a Latin cross with only one nave of three bays, probably,
longer as all case that her the East nowadays. Arms of the cross
were constituted by a transverse vessel, the transept, overflowing
of every side on the width of the nave. It remains to indicate him
four columns. The crossing, or gone central of the transept, prolonged
himself to the East by a bedhead or apse, preserved fully, whose
semicircular tracing formed five flaps coupes inside where was the
altar. The main facade probably decorated itself of a portal to
voussureses and columns. A bell-tower rose presumably on the dome
of the transept. It was a beautiful model of small church ru have,
that has sudden vicissitudes of history chambonnaise of the XVIèmes
and XVIIèmes centuries. In 1680, the bishop of the Velay
prescribed to restore it but it didn't make himself without delay
since the new bell-tower carries the date of 1779. While restoring
it one reduced it in length while suppressing two bays; in width
also by the suppression of an arm of the transept. The parochial
cemetery that surrounded him disappeared before 1910. The ancient
tower said the tower of the strong part made room it as in 1932
to a restored cure. A new building has been annexed, in 1953, to
the ancient church under shape of a perpendicular nave. Its thick
work perfectly harmonizes with the ancient church: same height,
same device of construction, same cover of lauzes, bays and doors
in full-hanger.