Châlons-en-Champagne, Notre-Dame-en-Vaux
CHALON-V

Building Data for Châlons-en-Champagne, Notre-Dame-en-Vaux

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  • Type: Collegiate
  • Affiliation: Benedictine
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  • Region: Champagne-Ardenne
  • Department: Marne
  • Coords: 48.957, 4.3635
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  • Surveyed: 1969, 1972-74, 1977, 1980-83, 1992-98, 2003, 2015

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Studies These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.
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These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.

Documents for Châlons-en-Champagne, Notre-Dame-en-Vaux

1157, 17 January



Miracle during construction.

HOC ANNO IN REAEDIFFICATIONE ECCLESIAE...QUA CORRUERAT, FIUNT MIRACULA...

This year during the rebuilding of the church...which had collapsed, a miracle happened...

Source: Labbé, Philippe, Nova Bibliotheca manuscriptorum Librorum, Paris, 1653, i, 296. Also Demaison, "Chalons", CA 1911, pp. 474-496.

Original document is lost.

1162 or later



Guy de Bazoches, canon of the cathedral 1162-71, described the works of the abbey to his sister.

...VERUM ETIAM AD OPUS EDIFICII MIRE MAGNITUDINIS, PLAUSTRIS NON MODICOS LAPIDES SED IPSA SAXORUM VISCERA SUPERPONENTES, A LONGINQUIS ET REMOTIS PARTIBUS PECTORIBUS TRAHANT DEVOTIS.

...to the work of the exceedingly great building, they devotedly dragged with their own bodies wagons loaded with large stones and even boulders, from distant and remote parts.

Source: Mortet, 1995, ii, 110. Cites Bibliothèque de Luxembourg, MSS A27, fols. 22-24.

1183, 29 August



Consecration

GUIDO EPISCOPUS BENEDIXIT ECCLESIAM...

Bishop Guy blessed the church...

Source: Chronicle of Saint-Pierre-aux-Morts, P. Labbé, "Nova Bibliotheca manuscriptorum Librorum", Paris, 1653, i, 296.

Does not state whether it was for one or many altars.

1217



Chapter was using choir, as stalls are mentioned

...CLERICI IN MINORIBUS ORDINIBUS CONSTITUTI STALLOS HABEBUNT IN INFERIORI IN MAJORIBUS AUTEM ET DIACONATU IN SEDES SUPERIORIS.

...the clerics will be arranged in the lower rows of the stalls beneath the high altar and the deacons in the upper seats.

Source: Archives Départementale de la Marne, Chalons-en-Champagne, G 420


1160/76



Pope authorises increase in canons.

ALEXANDER...INDULGENDUM UT LICEAT VOBIS PERSONAS IDONEAS HONESTAS IN FRATRES ET CON CANONICOS VESTROS RECIPERE...

Alexander...to allow and permit you to receive suitable persons as respected brothers and canons...

Source: Bibliothèque Châlons, MS 251, fol. 296.