# Interior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCHITECT, French]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The collegiate church of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux in Châlons-en-Champagne \(formerly Châlons-sur-Marne\) is about 40 kilometres southeast of Reims, and its choir shows considerable affinity with that of Saint-Remi in Reims, notably in its elevation and in the arrangement of its radiating chapels. Notre-Dame-en-Vaux can be seen as an imitation of those churches, such as Saint-Remi, in which differences of architectural style were used to demonstrate a venerable past. But it also marks the end of the development of stylistically heterogeneous Early Gothic type of church, in which the new had been developed out of a critical reappraisal of the old. Admittedly, there were later "composite" churches of this kind, but on the whole during the second half of the 12th century there was a marked shift towards stylistically more uniform churches. Notre-Dame-en-Vaux is a basilica intersected by a deep transept terminated by a chevet with radiating chapels with two slender columns in the mouth of each chapel. Twin towers nestle in the eastern end. The building has a superficial unity with arcade and spacious gallery and triforium. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Bird's eye view]() - [Burial lantern]() - [Castle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()