St-Julien (Saint-Julien-de-Jonzy)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portal and bell tower of the church

The church Saint-Julien is a - under the patronage of St. Julian of Brioude standing - Romanesque church in the town of Saint-Julien-de-Jonzy in Saône-et-Loire in the historic region of Burgundy ( France ), in the 12th Century was built. The tower and portal of the church, which was almost completely rebuilt in the 19th century, were listed as a monument historique as early as 1910 .

history

The church of Saint-Julien-de-Jonzy in Brionnais is mentioned for the first time in 1106 in a document from the Cluny monastery . It belonged in the Ancien Régime to the former diocese of Mâcon in the archbishopric of Lyon . The church was built in the middle of the 12th century; the tower with its base and the portal have been preserved from this period . The nave was completely rebuilt in the 19th century.

architecture

Inside

When you enter the church you are in the Romanesque part, because the first yoke is still under the tower. It is vaulted by an octagonal dome that rests on small trumpets . This part is separated by four pointed arcades that rest on semi - columns. The half-columns have powerful bases and carved capitals , which, however, are strikingly different from the portal decoration in their 'primitiveness'.

The adjoining new three- aisled nave consists of five bays, a retracted transept and a semicircular apse . A choir bay is in front of the apse . Round arched arcades, which rest on round pillars with acanthus capitals, separate the central nave from the aisles. All yokes are spanned by groin vaults and separated from each other by pointed arches .

Outside

The tower has a pyramid roof that was renewed in the 19th century. The tower basement underneath is divided by submitted half-columns , and long-span Biforienfenster whose outer profiled archivolts rest on pillars with foliated capitals set; the inner archivolts, on the other hand, are not profiled, but also rest on set columns. Below that there are round arch friezes on all four sides that rest on short fluted pilasters .

Tympanum

The tympanum and architrave of the portal are made of a stone slab; the arches, however, consist of separate stones. The almost three-dimensional representation of many figures is remarkable.

Of outstanding importance is the Romanesque portal, which protrudes slightly from the wall, with its antique triangular gable resting on fluted pilasters on the side. The sculptural tympanum from around 1130/40 with Christ in a mandorla , which is carried by two winged angels, is one of the masterpieces of Romanesque sculpture, with great attention to detail (wings and robes of the angels; a turned footstool under Jesus' feet) - as well as the architrave underneath and made from a stone slab together with the tympanum with a representation of the Last Supper . The scene of the washing of the feet can be seen on the right. The heads of Christ and the apostles were chopped off during the French Revolution , only the head of a disciple remains. The outer arched border of acanthus leaves is also noteworthy. The tympanum of Saint-Julien is often placed in a row with that of Montceaux-l'Étoile or the two north portals of the Saint-Fortunat Abbey in Charlieu, which is only about eleven kilometers south, and some researchers also assign it to the same master.

literature

  • Église de Saint-Julien-de-Jonzy (leaflet published by the Center International d'Études des Patrimoines Culturels en Charolais-Brionnais (CEP) in Saint-Christophe-en-Brionnais)
  • Henri Nicolas: Eglises romanes du Brionnais. Ed. La Taillanderie, Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne 2000, ISBN 2-876-29155-X , pp. 46–47.
  • Raymond Oursel: Bourgogne romane , Editions Zodiaque, Saint-Léger-Vauban 1979, ISBN 978-2-736-90018-2 , p. 293.

Web links

Commons : Saint-Julien (Saint-Julien-de-Jonzy)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église, Saint-Julien-de-Jonzy in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 46 ° 14 ′ 14.9 ″  N , 4 ° 8 ′ 40 ″  E