The Church Saint-Jean-Baptiste

Unexpected treasure - beautifully preserved

Having decided to stop in Chaorce to buy some of the famous local cheese (excellent by the way!) we decided to look around the church and were most pleasantly surprised by what we found. A beautifully...

Amazing crypt, great stained glass despite earlier bombing of the region, echoes and a retreat from the outside.

A mix of different centuries, starting from the 15th, this church has a lot to offer in terms of statues, paintings and the crypt which is tiny, but amazing. The statues are large and the walls have ...

A Treasure of Renaissance Sculpture - Extraordinary

Set in the middle of a small village a quick half an hour south of Troyes, Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a treasure trove of renaissance sculpture with remarkable statues of many saints on nearly every pier....

Dog on High...

We visited this splendid, almost 1,000 year old church, after coming across it by accident as it stands next to the tourist office in the centre of the town of Chaource which is famous for its very ta...

A masterpiece

The sculptured Entombment by the Master of Chaource (rightly so called) is really haunting and makes this village church well worth a visit.