. Rheims and the battles for its possession . ft at the entrance to the village, andfollow the main road. Tinqueux—Mont St. Pierre The church of Tinqueux (St. Peters) was entirely destroyed. It contained,on the left side of the nave, a remarkable 16th century painting on wood,representing the Adoration of the Shepherds, with a frame of the sameperiod. Near the church, between the Vesle and the main street of the village, stoodan old baronial mansion, in front of which was a building with turreted fagadeknown as the Maison de la Salle. Inside the buildings which, in later years,served as a farm
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . ft at the entrance to the village, andfollow the main road. Tinqueux—Mont St. Pierre The church of Tinqueux (St. Peters) was entirely destroyed. It contained,on the left side of the nave, a remarkable 16th century painting on wood,representing the Adoration of the Shepherds, with a frame of the sameperiod. Near the church, between the Vesle and the main street of the village, stoodan old baronial mansion, in front of which was a building with turreted fagadeknown as the Maison de la Salle. Inside the buildings which, in later years,served as a farm, there was a curious old wooden staircase with railedbalustrade. The whole was destroyed by the shells. In September, 1914, at the beginning of the bombardment of Rheims,many of the people took refuge at Tinqueux. At the end of the main street of the village, opposite a kind of observation-post with ladder in a tree, turn to the right. The road passes at the foot ofMont St. Pierre, whose village and church entirely disappeared in the 17th. THE MAIN STREET OF TINQUEUX 136 century. Ii was t replace the church of Mont St. Pierre that the church ofSt. Pierre de Tinqueux ua^ buill al the end of the 17th century. The road turns abruptly and actus the / esle. Turn to the right and crosstin- rivet in reach St. Brice. St. Brice—Champigny—Merfy (See Itinerary, p. 134.) Turn In the right at the entrance to the tillage and take the first street onthe right, which leads to the church. The Church of St. Brice was almost enlirely destroyed. In style, it is
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