East window Triptych - Châteauvieux
Triptych by Noël Lavergne depicting the Nativity, crucifixion, and resurrection.
Triptych by Noël Lavergne depicting the Nativity, crucifixion, and resurrection.
There are two churches in the town of Evreux that contain extensive amounts of medieval stained glass a) the cathedral of Notre-Dame, and b) the abbey church of Saint-Taurin.
This four-light window depicts the Four Great Fathers of the Western Church—St Ambrose, St Jerome, St Augustine ⓘ, and Pope Gregory the Great ⓘ—framed beneath an elaborate Gothic canopy. In the tracery lights above unfolds a Last Judgement scene, in which Christ appears in glory surrounded by angels and the resurrected dead, reinforcing the doctrinal authority of the Fathers through the lens of divine revelation.
This tomb commemorates Gérard de Conchy ⓘ, Bishop of Amiens from 1247 until his death in 1257. The monument consists of a recumbent effigy carved in stone, representing the bishop vested in liturgical garments and wearing a mitre, his head resting on a cushion in the conventional manner of 13th-century episcopal tomb sculpture.
Gothic sculpture in France occupies a foundational position in the history of medieval art. From the mid-twelfth century onward, French sculptors developed a new figural language closely bound to architecture, theology, and royal ideology. Unlike the more restrained and linear tradition of Britain, French Gothic sculpture is characterised by an early and sustained drive toward monumental naturalism, expressive presence, and narrative clarity, with sculpture conceived as an integral and dominant component of cathedral façades, portals, and interior articulation.
Grisaille design by Noël Lavergne Church of Saint Hilaire Châteauvieux.