Digne Cathedral

Cathedral of St Jérôme by Digne

Inside of the cathedral

Floor plan of the Cathedral of St Jérôme including the extension in the 19th century.

The cathedral of Digne in the highly provincial city of Digne-les-Bains in the south of France is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church . It is subordinate to the patronage of Hieronymus (Saint Jérôme) , one of the four "Latin" church fathers , and was classified as a Monument historique as early as 1906 .

history

Allegedly, Digne had been a bishop's seat since the 4th century . Due to the local division of the city in the Middle Ages into an elevated castle district (bourg) and a settlement grouping around it (cité) , the old and too small cathedral of the castle district ( Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Bourg ) fell into the sidelines in the 15th century. At the end of the century a new building was built, the north side of which was opened in the 17th century by side chapels . In the years 1846–1862 the building underwent further profound changes by the architect Antoine-Nicolas Bailly , a student of Viollet-le-Duc - so the entire west facade was extended by a yoke and redesigned.

architecture

The church, built in the 15th century, has three naves; the central nave is raised compared to the two aisles, but not independently illuminated. The pointed arch windows of the polygonally broken apse are without tracery ; the tracery of the side aisle windows shows influences from the early Renaissance . The entire interior of the church, including the round pillars without capitals on which the belt arches and vault ribs rest, is plastered and covered with joint paintings . Around the middle of the 19th century the west side was extended by a yoke and redesigned in a Romanesque - Gothic mix of styles. The tympanum field shows Christ as the judge of the world in a mandorla carried by the four evangelist symbols ; on Trumeaupfeiler there is the figure of St. Jerome.

West rose
Tympanum
St. Jerome
Root Jesse window

While the visible stones of the church are precisely carved, the tower - with the exception of the corner stones - consists of rubble stones. It ends in a wrought-iron bell cage, which is typical of the region .

Furnishing

The listed equipment includes numerous reliquary containers and other church equipment ; the glass paintings all date from the 19th century (see note 1).

View of the main organ

The great organ (Orgue de tribune) was built in 1865 by the organ builder Cavaillé-Coll and was last restored by the organ builder Simon in 1994. The instrument has 21 stops on two manual works and a pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Grand Orgue C – f ³
01.	Montre	16 '
02.	Montre	08th'
03.	Flûte harmonique	08th'
04th	Bourdon	08th'
05.	Prestant	04 '
06th	Fifth	02 ² ⁄ ₃  '
07th	Duplicate	02 '
08th.	Plein Jeu harmonique III-VI
09.	Trumpets	08th'
10.	Trumpets	08th'

II Récit expressif C – f ³
11.	Flûte traversière	08th'
12.	Viole de gambe	08th'
13.	Voix céleste	08th'
14th	Flûte octaviante	04 '
15th	Octavine	02 '
16.	Trumpets	08th'
17th	Basson-Hautbois	08th'
18th	Voix humaine	08th'
	tremolo

Pedale C – f ¹
19th	Soubasse	16 '
20th	Bourdon	08th'
21st	Flute	04 '

Coupling : I / I (sub-octave coupling), II / I, I / P, II / P

Web links

Commons : Cathédrale Saint-Jérome de Digne - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

44.091944444444 6.2358333333333Coordinates: 44 ° 5 ′ 31 ″ N , 6 ° 14 ′ 9 ″ E

[1] Digne Cathedral - Base Merimée

[2] Information on the organ