St-Cyr-Ste Julitte (Crouy-sur-Ourcq)

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Parish Church of Saint-Cyr-Sainte Julitte
View from the south

The Catholic parish church of Saint-Cyr-Sainte Julitte in Crouy-sur-Ourcq , a parish in the Seine-et-Marne department in the French region of Île-de-France , was largely built in the 16th century on the site of a previous Romanesque building. The church is dedicated to St. Quiricus and his mother Julitta , who were martyred in Asia Minor in the 4th century . In 1919 the church, in which stained-glass windows from the Renaissance have been preserved, was added to the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique .

history

The current church was built between 1527 and 1620 in the Renaissance style. The Romanesque bell tower from the 12th century is still preserved from the previous church . The year 1527, the year the church was built, can be found on a pillar to the left of the main altar. Around 1550, the landlord of Crouy, Méry de Sépoix, had the church rebuilt. Construction work continued under his son, Robert de Sépoix. Father and son are depicted on two stained glass windows from the 16th century.

architecture

Exterior construction

West portal

Only the west facade with its portal, which is formed by two arched doors, is still preserved in the Renaissance style. The Renaissance decor was badly damaged during the Frond revolts in the middle of the 17th century. There is still an empty figural niche on the central pillar and an inscription with the date of construction, January 22, 1536, is engraved on the fighters . The beginning of the entablature with the ornamental gable can still be seen. The gable surface is covered with medallions in which the portraits of Mery de Sépoix and his wife as well as their alliance coat of arms are carved.

  • Ornamental pediments and medallions

  • Central pillar with inscription

  • Decor of an archivolt

inner space

The interior is designed as a three-aisled hall . The main nave is covered by a ribbed vault. It is divided into six bays and ends in a choir with a polygonal apse in the east . The vault keystone of the last yoke is carved as a filigree suspension . The wide aisles just end closed. The pillars of the bell tower have been preserved in the south aisle. The pointed arch arcades that separate the main nave and the side aisles - like the vault ribs - rest on towering columns without capitals .

Leaded glass window

Right apse window

Renaissance window

In the apse, three windows have retained their original lead glazing from the 16th century. In the left window are Méry de Sépoix and his son Robert. Both kneel and wear a yellow cape with red squares, their coat of arms. Behind Méry de Sépoix is ​​his patron saint , St. Medericus (Merry), behind his son is a bishop, St. Robert, who puts a hand on his protégé's shoulder. In the tracery you can see the Archangel Michael who defeated Lucifer . The lower panes of the window show the coat of arms of the Lords of Sépoix, which is held by two shield holders , hairy wild men with clubs. A helmet is shown above the coat of arms .

Louise d'Ougnyès kneels in the right window, behind her is her patron saint, the French King Louis the Saint . The apostle Peter is depicted on the right lancet . He is said to have the facial features of Pierre de Sépoix, Robert de Sépoix's uncle. The tracery shows the baptism of Jesus . The window is dated with the year 1615. The lower inscription says that the window was restored by Chartres- based glass painter Nicolas Lorin .

The middle window contains fragments from the 16th century with scenes from the life of Mary and the life of Jesus. The tracery shows the scene of the crucifixion of Christ .

  • Coat of arms of the Lords of Sépoix

  • Apostle Peter

  • Louise d'Ougnyès and Louis the Saint

  • coat of arms

Leaded glass window from the 19th century

The stained glass window depicting the Seven Sorrows of Mary (center), the Apostle Paul (left) and the Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, Charles Borromeo (right), is dated 1882 and bears the signature of the Meaux- based glass painter Henri Plée on. The signature Plée Meaux 1882 also bears the window with the scene of the Annunciation . St. Margaret is depicted on one window, and symbols of the Virgin Mary from the Lauretanian litany can be seen on another window .

  • Annunciation

  • Mary symbols

  • Paul, Maria and Karl Borromeo

  • Margaret of Antioch

literature

  • Louis Grodecki, Françoise Perrot, Jean Taralon (eds.): Les vitraux de Paris, de la région parisienne, de la Picardie et du Nord-Pas-de-Calais . (= Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi ). Récensement des vitraux anciens de la France. Volume 1, Éditions du Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-222-02263-0 , p. 96.
  • Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (ed.): Le Guide du Patrimoine. Île-de-France . Hachette, 2nd edition, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-01-016811-9 , p. 204.
  • Georges Poisson (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments d'Île de France . Editions Hervas, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84334-002-0 , pp. 268-269.
  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-et-Marne . Flohic Éditions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-100-7 , pp. 630-631.

Web links

Commons : Saint-Cyr-Sainte Julitte (Crouy-sur-Ourcq)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Verrière: Méry de Sépois, seigneur de Crouy, son fils et leurs patrons in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Verrière: Louise d'Ougnyès et son patron in Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  4. ↑ Verrière: Scènes de la vie de la Vierge, Scènes de la vie du Christ in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 28.7 "  N , 3 ° 4 ′ 34"  E