St-Julien (Le Petit-Quevilly)
The Saint-Julien Roman Catholic Chapel in Le Petit-Quevilly , a French commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region , was built in the 12th century. The Romanesque chapel has been a protected architectural monument ( Monument historique ) since 1862 .
history
The chapel originally belonged as a house chapel to a hunting lodge that the Duke of Normandy and King of England Henry II had built in Quevilly Park around 1160. In 1183 the chapel became the center of a leper hospital . In 1883 it became the property of the municipality.
description
The central nave, which is now provided with a flat ceiling, consists of three bays . The slightly recessed choir with a six-part ribbed vault closes with a low apse . The wall connection of the 23.70 meter long and 8.30 meter wide chapel is carefully crafted. The outer walls are structured by flat buttresses and adorned by a cornice resting on consoles . Inside the lower wall section is provided with a blind arch fries decorated carrying a zigzag band. This frieze continues on the rear wall of the facade and the apse. The ribs are supported by capitals with stylized plant motifs, some of which have been renewed. The arch in the passage between the nave and the choir once had a bell gable . Three arched windows are arranged above the portal with simple archivolts . The gable is crowned by a stone cross.
Frescoes
The frescoes , dated between 1183 and 1190, were painted on the vaults of the choir and apse. Above all, they represent the life of Mary .
Ceiling fresco in the choir
Annunciation , Visitation and Birth of Jesus
Mary with child
literature
- Lucien Musset : Romanesque Normandy (East) . Echter Verlag , Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-429-01090-X , pp. 293-294.
Web links
- Chapelle Saint-Julien du Petit-Quevilly in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '14.9 " N , 1 ° 3' 28.8" E