The church in Saulxures, once a branch of Rançonnières, is an elongated sandstone building. Some parts of Saint-Jacques church are thought to date from the 12th century, in particular the base of the bell tower, the south chapel and the space containing the stairwell. All these parts probably originally formed a transept. In the following century, the bell tower was added, and the arches of the vaults were reinforced with pointed arches. In the 18th century (as indicated by the date inscribed on the door of the south wall of the nave), the old choir and nave were demolished and rebuilt in their current location, to the east of the bell tower. The interior of the nave appears to have been refurbished in the second half of the 19th century, as it is covered with false rib vaults. The nave, with its single roof, is made up of three three-bay vessels. It is preceded by a tower-porch crowned by a gable roof. Its base is rib-vaulted and framed by the stairwell to the north and a chapel to the south. The choir, with a single nave of three bays, ends in a flat chevet. The shed-roofed sacristy backs onto the south side of the second bay of the choir.
Morimond Abbey collected a large part of the local tithes given to it by Jean I de Chateauvillain. The other part was collected by the Langres seminary (due to a donation to the priory of Saint-Amâtre de Langres in 1226 by Raynard de Choiseul) and the parish priest.
Eglise Saint-Jacques de Saulxures
