St-Etienne (Ars-en-Ré)

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St-Etienne, view of the tower and west building
The west portal

The Roman Catholic parish church of St-Étienne is located in Ars-en-Ré on the Île de Ré in the Charente-Maritime department in France . The church has been classified as a monument historique since 1903 .

history

The church, consecrated to the holy arch-martyr Stephen , has an unusual floor plan, which is explained by its architectural history. First there was a small priory in the 11th century, which was under the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm . The elongated, single-nave Romanesque west building goes back to this, with an important early Gothic portal in the west. A west transept joins this older part of the church in front of the actual nave, and the striking tower rises above the crossing. The three-aisled nave has three bays. On the last yoke of the nave there are side chapels in the north and south of the transept. The adjoining three-aisled choir bay has a semicircular apse in the middle.

The gothic 40 meter high pointed helmet, visible from the sea, was built in the 15th century. It has its color scheme in black and white for navigation purposes in seafaring.

See also

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Charente-Maritime. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-129-5 , p. 93.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St-Étienne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ infiniment-charentes.com

Web links

Commons : St-Étienne (Ars-en-Ré)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 12 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 1 ° 30 ′ 56 ″  W.