This chapel is dedicated to Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.
It was built in 1504 by Guillemette Perraut and her son, Gérard d'Allichamps, canon of the collegiate church of Saint-Laurent (the church of the Château d'En-Haut, which overlooked Joinville until the end of the 18th century). The date can be found above the western portal, accompanied by a coat of arms.
The Sainte-Anne chapel was the first sumptuary building to be constructed in Joinville outside of the lord's will.
It was partly financed by a local aristocratic family, who decided to erect it on the death of Gérard d'Allichamps (the father of the previous owner), lieutenant of the royal bailiff of Chaumont and head of the Joinville salt store.
In this way, the chapel symbolised the power of the great Joinville families, both noble and middle-class, at the time.
Built in the flamboyant Gothic style, the chapel comprises a two-bay nave with rib vaulting and a three-sided apse. The buttresses are essential elements of the construction: one of them is adorned with a small three-lobed niche, which once housed a statuette of Notre-Dame des Ermites.
Overhung by a polygonal spire on the second bay, this chapel has a basket-handle portal.
It is lit by seven bays, adorned with magnificent stained-glass windows dating from the 16th century, the early days of the Trojan school.
Indeed, a prestigious school of master stained-glass artists was developing in Troyes at this time.
Some of the chapel's windows were donated by Henri de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz, and mainly depict the lives of Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary.
The chapel also retains a wooden fence separating the choir from the nave, and houses a Christ in Ties, dating from the first half of the 16th century.
Near the chapel is the tomb of the Princes of Joinville.
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CHAPELLE SAINTE-ANNE DE JOINVILLE
