The project, which will start in early 2022, involves upgrading the church’s electrical facilities, lighting and interiors and creating access for people with reduced mobility. The work, worth €400,000, is funded by the DRAC Grand Est.
Renovation of the electrical installation and lighting of the Notre-Dame-de-Galée church
Amount: €400,000 (100% State - DRAC Grand Est)
Start of work: 2022
Duration: 12 months
Protection as historical monuments
The Church of Our Lady of Galilee is classified as historical monuments by order of 12 July 1886
Description of the intervention
The present work aims at renewing the electrical and lighting installations for interior enhancement of the church. The quality of the lighting will be improved with a suitable number of projectors, installed at the level of the cornice and the shafts of the column capitals.
To harmonize the integration of its facilities, accompanying works are also provided in right of the pavements of ground and coated facing. The first will be carried out under the supervision of the Regional Service of Archaeology. The recovery in search of plaster, and the general repair of the brush on the vaults and the walls of the tribune will complete this intervention.
The creation of a PMR access is also proposed.
Gen PresentationChurch of Our Lady of Galilee
The church of Our Lady of Galilee is built in XIIe century following a fire destroying the previous churches built in the VIIe and VIIIe centuries.
On July 6, 1554, a fire damaged the church and its cover and caused the top of the tower to collapse. In 1697, a communication between the cloister (North gallery) and the forecourt of the church of Our Lady of Galilee was created. From this period date the two largest flying buttresses in the north of the building, and the arch vaults of the nave that replace the crusades of warheads, whose departures were found at the end of the 19th century. The church was the subject of a general restoration from 1889 to 1894: two aisles of the choir are opened, the high aisles of the nave are redone in the Romanesque style, the painting of the walls, columns and cornices is eliminated, and the coatings of the vaults are redone. The aisles are restored with double arches which are "deformed".
The north and south sides of the porch tower were restored in 1907. In 1911, the flat tile roof on the north side was redone and the roofs were revised.
The stained glass windows of the XIXe During the Second World War, the Cathedral was not able to withstand the explosion of the Second World War and was replaced by new stained glass windows inspired by geometric and monochrome Cistercian stained-glass windows from the 12th century.
Built at the north end of the cloister of Saint-Dié Cathedral, the Church of Our Lady of Galilee is considered one of the outstanding examples of Southern Lorraine Romanesque art. Built in XIIe century, the medieval church is today a place of worship regularly used in addition to the cathedral. Built in pink sandstone of the Vosges, the church, almost oriented, is designed according to a basilical plan. The nave, which is approximately 11.50 m high, consists of two large bays with pointed vaults and double arches.
Capitals decorated with animals or plants are located on the pillars on either side of the choir, on the columns of the inner and outer arches of the apse, and on either side of the bay of the tribune opening onto the nave. Fragments of cornices with more or less legible plant motifs can also be seen in the gallery. The capitals of the nave’s pillars are cubic geometric in shape with semicircular engraving at the bottom edge. A cornice with modillions, placed above the capitals of the strong piles, runs through the entire nave into the apse. All the windows of the church are Romanesque (semi-circular). The stained glass windows are Cistercian in inspiration, with geometric and monochrome motifs. On the outside, the old porch tower has some façade ornaments, some of which are very deteriorated.