Église de la Conversion de Saint Paul (Riverie)
| Église de la Conversion de Saint Paul (Riverie)
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| Denomination : | Roman Catholic |
| Patronage : | Conversion of the Apostle Paul |
| Consecration year : | before 1670 |
| Rank: | Parish church |
| Parish : | Paroisses Saint Jean Pierre Néel en Lyonnais |
| Address: | Montée du Chambarot, Riverie |
Coordinates: 45 ° 35 ′ 56.7 " N , 4 ° 35 ′ 17.8" E
The Church of Pauli Conversion ( French Église de la Conversion-de-Saint-Paul ) in Riverie is a Roman Catholic branch church that is dedicated to the conversion of the Apostle Paul .
The rectangular hall church, made of rough field stones and unplastered on the outside, is located on the northern edge within the old fortifications that enclosed the place at approx. 730 m. It is one of the highest buildings in the community. The Romanesque church was first mentioned in 1670 by a master watchmaker who had carried out repairs there.
Building description
The entrance portal, above which the bell tower rises, faces east. Residential houses are built to the south, and a lane runs in the north, on the opposite side of which is the town's primary school. The school was built on the foundations of the former castle, remains of which have been preserved. The facade is kept very simple and is crowned by a covered gable (triangular gable). Only the portal is more complex. It is bordered by two pseudo portals with a roof . A semicircular stone staircase is in front. Two smaller, unadorned doors are let into the two side aisles, leading into the bell tower on the right and a storage room on the left. A window in the form of a rose window is set into the wall above the portal and is crowned by a coat of arms. This coat of arms is provided with the year 1693 and marks the completion of the reconstruction of this church by the then sovereign, Count Jean-Claude Grimod-Bénéon (1688-1713).
With the secularization , the inventory was sold in 1796. The church itself was not damaged. In the half century after that the church had grown from 500 to 600 souls and there was a lively church life again. In the choir , a white, was marble altar of Lyons sculptor Jean-Baptiste Cony set up (1828-1873). The wood paneling is also from this time, with inlaid work depicting images of Christ on the cross , the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist . This also includes a confessional from the same workshop , which reflects the spirit of the 17th century. In 1892 the church tower was raised by a few meters. There is an illustration by Joannès Drevet from the time before this renovation, which shows the older state.
At the beginning of the 20th century, older altars made of painted wood were replaced by marble. The side chapels received new stained glass windows. Overall, the interior design was significantly changed. The four side chapels are dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus , Joseph of Nazareth , the Virgin Mary and Saint Paul . The carved pulpit, on which Jesus can be seen with the cross, as well as four evangelists and two stylized lion heads, was made in the workshop of Bruyas and Baud in 1903. The entrance door is also from the first decade and comes from the Boisand workshop, also from Lyon.
Riverie's population shrank to 160 by the mid-1970s. The interior of the church was stripped of all its ornamentation by knocking the plaster from the walls in the hope of finding medieval traces, but without any significant result. The floor, which had consisted of offset stone slabs over the centuries, was concreted over in order to obtain a uniform surface. The bell has been converted to electromechanical . It sounds in F minor with the three bells tuned to F, A flat and C.
Arm reliquary
One of the church treasures is an arm reliquary made of gilded bronze, which depicts the right forearm of St. Ursula . This reliquary was made in 1509 for Claude de Laurencin (1450–1532), city councilor of the city of Lyon and from 1513 to 1532 landlord of Riverie, and his wife Sybille Bullioud. The relic with a lily blossom was given to them by Anne de Bretagne , who had chosen St. Ursula as second patroness and was waiting for Sybille Bullioud as lady-in-waiting. Since Claude de Laurencin had bought the Barony of Riverie in 1513, the reliquary was likely donated to the parish church on that day or when he died around 1532.
Church window
The rosette window above the entrance door is decorated very simply with white glass and a stylized, four-leaf clover, which has a Maltese cross and is surrounded by floral motifs. Perhaps it comes from the nearby castle and was the renovation of the church at the end of the 17th century translocated . The other six rectangular windows are lively designed, two of them are in the choir. These two stained glass windows are probably from the first half of the 19th century during the reign of Father Michel Rouand. The four in the nave are younger. They date from 1901.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://lyon.catholique.fr/diocese/trouver-une-paroisse/paroisse-de-saint-jean-pierre-neel-lyonnais/ Le site de l'Église catholique dans le Rhône et le Roannais
- ↑ Olivier Lanore: Histoire de l'église Saint-Paul de Riverie.
Web links
- Olivier Lanore: Histoire de l'église Saint-Paul de Riverie. (French), published under Aveize-histoire-de-l-eglise-d-aveize.html on August 7, 2018, pages 130-139