Notre-Dame (Château-Landon)
The Notre-Dame Catholic Church in Château-Landon , a parish in the Seine-et-Marne department in the French region of Île-de-France , dates back to the 11th century. The church has been on the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique since 1840 .
history
The Notre-Dame church was built towards the end of the 11th century and is one of the five churches of Château-Landon that were mentioned as far back as the Middle Ages. In the middle of the 12th century the transept and the choir head were built . The base of the bell tower also dates from this time. In the 14th century, the south arcades and the south aisle were heavily modified. In 1668, a lightning strike damaged the tower, which was not restored until two hundred years later. At the end of the 19th century, under the direction of the architect Louis Sauvageot, further restoration measures were carried out, during which the wooden ceiling of the main nave was renewed.
architecture
Exterior construction
The bell tower rises above the choir bay, in front of the apse on the north side , the corners of which are reinforced by buttresses in the substructure . The three upper floors are broken through on all four sides by ogival twin windows. The archivolts of the windows are decorated with round bars and rest on slender, set columns. A two-row serrated frieze runs under the roof .
The main portal is on the west facade. It is embedded in a wall projection and is of a ring cornice with sculpted corbels separated from the overlying window. A gable-shaped lintel with a tympanum decorated with a diamond pattern rests on the two inner posts . This is framed by slightly protruding wedge stones and framed by archivolts. The wedge stones of the outer arch are decorated with reliefs of stars. The arched window above the portal is also surrounded by archivolts. As above the portal, a cornice on corbels, decorated with palmettes and volutes , runs above the window . Further portals are located on the north facade, on the north and on the south transept.
The three apses of the choir head are structured by buttresses and each pierced by three arched windows. Only the apex windows are equipped with slender columns and framed with archivolts, which are decorated with round bars.
inner space
As on the outside, the portal and window on the rear of the west facade are embedded in a wall protrusion. As on the outside, the portal is decorated with round bars and covings and is surrounded by a scroll frieze. On the west wall and the north aisle wall, several layers of quarry stone are stacked in a herringbone pattern , which suggests that the nave and the west facade were built in the 11th century.
The central nave, which was never vaulted, is separated from the side aisles by six unadorned arcades. They rest on rectangular pillars with simple, profiled fighters , some of which are decorated with a dew band decoration.
The transept arms are covered with a groin vault. The crossing , which is believed to date from the second quarter of the 12th century, has a ribbed vault .
Corner leaves from the 12th / 13th centuries have been attached to the bases of several columns . Century preserved. They represent fantasy beings.
Furnishing
- A baptismal font from the 11th century has been preserved in the church.
- A former grain measure from the 15th century is used as a holy water font.
literature
- Anne Prache: Romanesque Île-de-France (Paris and surroundings) . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-429-01029-2 , pp. 373-380.
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-et-Marne . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-100-7 , pp. 194-196.
Web links
- Église Notre-Dame in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- High-resolution 360 ° Panoramas and Images of Notre-Dame (Château-Landon) | Art atlas
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '56.4 " N , 2 ° 42' 6.8" E