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Eglise Saint-Laurent de Fuligny

Place Saint-Georges, 10200 Fuligny

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Set amidst the wooded, rolling countryside of the Champagne region, come and discover, in the heart of a village with a rich heritage, a church with an unusual silhouette dedicated to Saint Lawrence. Situated on a small hillock, the church is surrounded by the cemetery and faces the entrance to the castle, which no longer stands. Like so many churches in the Aube region, Saint-Laurent de Fuligny is a composite structure comprising a Romanesque nave which is said to have housed the mausoleum of Guillaume, Lord of Fuligny (1202–1264), who accompanied St Louis on the Seventh Crusade (he is said to have brought back a fragment of the True Cross from the Holy Land). The church also comprises a chancel rebuilt in the late 15th or early 16th century, a porch and a chapel added to the north aisle of the nave in the following century. The short, single-nave church, built of rubble stone in the 12th century and covered with flat tiles, is lit by two semicircular windows and, to the south, by a window dating from the same period as the choir’s reconstruction, a window which has retained its Flamboyant tracery and a few fragments of 16th-century stained glass listed in 1913. These are incorporated into two lancets, a bell-shaped window and two spandrels of the tympanum. One can still see elements of plant decoration, a Holy Trinity and lozenge-patterned stained glass filling in the gaps. This nave is covered by a panelled vault which has been rendered. During the Classical period, a porch was added to the west façade; this serves as the main entrance to the building and conceals the medieval pointed-arch doorway. The bell tower, probably dating from the 16th century, rises at the north-western end of the nave. Its three levels of sound-dampening walls are surmounted by a tapered octagonal spire, covered in slate, the layout and silhouette of which were common in Champagne during this period. The three-sided chancel is buttressed at the corners. Three windows, partly bricked up, once provided light for the sanctuary. The southern and northern side windows feature a low arch in their lower section, one of which bears the date 1769. The central window was bricked up in the 17th century when the large altarpiece was installed. Like the nave, this chancel is clad in oak panelling, which here culminates in a semi-circular vault above the apse, the tie beam of which rests on four truncated round columns.

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Listing provided by Office de Tourisme des Grands Lacs de Champagne (updated by the source on 20/09/2025).

Tourist office data: DATAtourisme, Licence Ouverte (French open licence), updated 22 October 2026.