St-Andéol (Velorgues)

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Chapel of St Andéol

The St-Andéol Chapel is the former priory and parish church of Velorgues , a hamlet in the southern French municipality of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue . It has been protected as a registered monument ( Monument historique ) since 2016 .

architecture

The chapel consists of a single nave with two bays , which is extended to the east by a semicircular apse . This has a low, openwork window in the south wall, which allowed a direct view of the sanctuary and the consecration stone from the cemetery .

history

In 988 a church with the name St-Andéol is mentioned for the first time, which was donated by Coseigneurs to the Benedictine Abbey of Montmajour . St-Andéol then became a Benedictine priory .

The chapel was built in the 11th century and replaced the older church . In the 12th century, monks modified the building by covering the nave with a barrel vault , adding blind arcades in the main nave and wall pillars supported by outer buttresses .

In the 13th century a gallery was built on the western yoke and at the beginning of the 14th century a side chapel was added to the north. These two late changes are gone today.

The priory church included several outbuildings (monastery house, cloister, cemetery, hayloft), a hospital outside the city walls and a poor house .

During the French Revolution , the chapel was sold to a farmer who turned it into a barn with a hayloft. In the mid-1970s it developed into an antique store and in 2013 it was bought by the city. Extensive excavations have been taking place on the site since 2014 .

See also

Web links

Commons : St-Andéol (Velorgues)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry No. PA84000073 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on May 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Velorgues et la chapelle Saint-Andéol (L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue). In: insula - le patrimoine de L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. Direction du Patrimoine de L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, April 18, 2017, accessed on May 22, 2020 (French).

Coordinates: 43 ° 53 '48 "  N , 5 ° 2' 59"  E