Artist: Didier Sancey
with Alice Sancey.
2013-2014
Stained glass windows of the Saint-Vaast church in Wallers.
Winning project, 2013, installation of the stained glass windows in May 2014.
Architect: Agence Michel Goutal ACMH, Chief Architect of the “Monuments Historiques”
Client: City of Wallers
Realization: Ateliers Loire.
In 2006 the roof of the church of Saint Vaast de Wallers burned.
For this project, the stained glass windows of the choir, transepts and tower are very bright and colored, they transcend the trauma of the fire.
The church restoration project and the stained glass project are both in a contemporary approach.
In the projects of Wallers and Noisy, the monument defines the rhythm of the large areas of color of the stained glass and their light.
The technique used, lead stained glass, allows to obtain these bright and perennial colors thanks to the "antique glasses" in coherence with the existing stained glasses.
In these two projects, two wefts, one geometric and the other fractal constitute the lead networks. Their density and rhythm depend on the position of the stained glass windows in the monument.
Here, in Wallers, the relationship between the three stained glass windows of the choir and the stained glass window of the bell tower marks the axis of the church, an atypical orientation (the choir is oriented towards the North).
To the east, the stained glass windows of the transept find a unity around the new central stained glass window which takes up some elements of the old windows - the mandorla and a floral motif. In the lower part of the two bays being restored, a contemporary design is superimposed on old elements, such as fragments of glass located around the barlotières that remained in place after the fire. At the base of these bays, a light colored line unifies the whole by giving it a more aerial character.
For the West transept, the stained glass windows planned for restoration turned out to be in too bad a condition, I had to modify the project by adapting the stained glass windows to be restored in a contemporary approach of creation / restoration.
Didier Sancey
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