Église Notre-Dame de La Neuville de Corbie, Gothic church in Corbie, France

Église Notre-Dame de La Neuville de Corbie is a Flamboyant Gothic church built of chalk from Vaux-sur-Somme quarries on sandstone courses. Its west facade has a basket-handle portal with four archivolts and a sculpted frieze of a stag hunted by two dogs with putti. A square bell tower with a slate-covered wooden spire and a stair turret stands on the north side.

The oldest part, the square bell tower, dates from the late 15th century; the nave and facade followed in the early 16th. A north aisle was added in the 17th century, probably after the 1636 siege of Corbie. Classified as a monument historique on 14 January 1895, the church was restored from 1898 to 1901 under Édouard Danjoy, then again in the 1920s after 1918 shelling pierced the nave roof.

The tympanum over the portal shows Christ entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, carved in stone from the Vaux-sur-Somme quarries between 1515 and 1528. Look for the miller watching from a window and figures climbing trees; the statues that once flanked the porch are gone. In 2022 a new liturgical furnishing by Corbéen craftsman Vincent Bergogne, after drawings by François-Xavier Legenne, was consecrated by Bishop Gérard Le Stang.

The church stands in the La Neuville district of Corbie, in the Somme. A protective awning was installed over the tympanum in 1993, and major work in 2021 restored the roof, framework, masonry and windows. The tympanum sculptures were due for full restoration in 2025, so some areas may be closed off.

The 12th-century baptismal font is the only survivor of the earlier church on this site; the present building replaced it at the end of the 15th century. The font is kept inside, while the exterior sculpture of the tympanum, carved in stone from the Vaux-sur-Somme quarries, has been sheltered by a protective awning since 1993.