St-Leu-St-Gilles (Paris)
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The Catholic parish church of Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles at 92 rue Saint-Denis in the 1st arrondissement of Paris was built at the beginning of the 14th century on the way from the Île de la Cité to the royal burial place in the abbey church of Saint-Denis built. Of the numerous churches that were built on this axis in the Middle Ages , it is one of the few that have been preserved. In 1915 the church was included in the list of French architectural monuments as Monument historique . The nearest metro stations are Les Halles and Étienne Marcel on line 4 .
history
In the 12th century there were in the former Abbey Saint-Magloire in the Rue Saint-Denis , a St. Giles consecrated chapel . In 1235 the Benedictines of Saint-Magloire had their own church built outside the monastery district for the faithful who had settled around the monastery. It was also consecrated to Saint Giles (Gilles), a hermit and later abbot of Saint-Gilles in southern France, who is venerated as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers . Later the church also received the patronage of St. Lupus of Sens (Loup or Leu), who was Bishop of Sens in the 7th century .
Since the church had become too small, a new, larger building was erected in its place in 1319, which was expanded in the 16th century with two side aisles. At the beginning of the 17th century the Gothic choir was replaced by a Renaissance style choir head . Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles initially belonged to the parish of Saint-Barthélemy, which was located on the Île de la Cité near the Palace of Justice , and only became an independent parish church in 1617.
In 1780, the architect Charles de Wailly created the crypt under the choir, when the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem made Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles the church of their religious chapter. After the order of knights left the church in 1830, it returned to Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles in 1928 and has been using the baptistery for its ceremonies ever since.
The church suffered severe damage during the French Revolution and served as a food depot. In 1802 the church was rededicated for worship. When the Boulevard de Sébastopol broke through in the course of the redesign of Paris under Prefect Haussmann , three apse chapels and the ambulatory had to give way. They were newly laid out in 1858 by Victor Baltard , much smaller. The Marienkapelle and the rectory were built on the south side of the church.
architecture
The west facade is framed by two pointed towers. Since the expansion in the 16th century, the church has three ships that carried the pointed arch arcades are separated. There is no transept. The church is covered with a ribbed vault, which was renewed in 1727 in the Gothic style.
Leaded glass window
The leaded glass windows were created by Eugène-Stanislas Oudinot (1827–1889), Prosper Lafaye and Paul Nicod and installed between 1861 and 1869. The choir windows depict the Evangelists . They were made by Paul Nicod from boxes by Jean-Paul Balze. The windows destroyed during the Paris Commune were replaced by Henri Chabin between 1875 and 1881.
Creation Story Window
Apostle window
Root Jesse Window
Furnishing
- The alabaster reliefs in a chapel in the ambulatory with the depictions of the Last Supper , Judas kiss and the flagellation of Christ date from the 15th century and were made in a workshop in Nottingham .
- The marble sculpture in the second chapel of the south aisle depicting the teaching of Mary was created by Jean Bullant (around 1515–1578).
- The painting with the depiction of St. Jerome in prayer (based on Georges de la Tour ) in the third chapel of the south aisle is attributed to Trophime Bigot (1579–1650).
- The reclining figure of Christ in the grave in the crypt probably dates from the 17th century.
- The sculptures on the pillars in the choir are works of the 19th century. They represent the first patron saint of the church, St. Aegidius, the doctors of the Church Augustine of Hippo and John Chrysostom , St. Vincent of Paul , the apostles Peter and Paul and Charles Borromeo , the representative of the Counter-Reformation .
- The church also houses the paintings Le Père éternel (God the Father) by Jean Jouvenet (1644-1717) and Les Pèlerins d'Emmaüs (The Emmaus Disciples) (1763) by Jean Restout (1692-1768).
organ
The organ is the work of the organ builder François-Henri Clicquot and the carpenter Rimbert Nicolas. In the organ case parts of the first organ from 1603 are involved. The organ was installed in 1788 and restored several times. In 1815 it was added to the list of Monuments historiques .
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literature
- Georges Brunel, Marie-Laure Deschamps-Bourgeon, Yves Gagneux: Dictionnaire des Églises de Paris . Éditions Hervas, Paris 2000 (1st edition 1995), ISBN 2-903118-77-9 , pp. 276-277.
- Jean Colson, Marie-Christine Lauroa (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments de Paris . Éditions Hervas, Paris 2003 (1st edition 1992), ISBN 2-84334-001-2 , pp. 709-710.
- Aline Dumoulin, Alexandra Ardisson, Jérôme Maingard, Murielle Antonello: Paris. D'Église en Église . Éditions Massin, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7072-0583-4 , pp. 26-28.
Web links
- Église Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Organ of Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ ( Memento from June 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '46.3 " N , 2 ° 21' 0.2" E