St-Loup (Saint-Loup-de-Naud)
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The Saint-Loup Catholic Church in Saint-Loup-de-Naud , a parish in the Seine-et-Marne department in the French region of Île-de-France , was probably started in the second half of the 11th century in the Romanesque style . The west portal, influenced by the king portal of Chartres , was built around 1160 . The church has been on the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique since 1846 .
history
Already in the 10th century there was a manor called Naud with a church dedicated to St. Lupus of Sens consecrated chapel . St. Lupus was bishop of the later Archdiocese of Sens in the 7th century . Around 980 the Archbishop of Sens donated four altars to this chapel to the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif in Sens . This donation was linked to the establishment of a priory that was subordinate to the Saint-Pierre-le-Vif Abbey. The choir , transept and the two eastern nave bays were built in the second half of the 11th century. Around 1160/61 the Archbishop of Sens, Hugues de Toucy, gave the priory a relic of St. Lupus. The four western bays of the nave and the western portal of the church, whose sculptural decoration is already influenced by the early Gothic style , were probably built at this time . When a village developed around the priory in the 12th century, Saint-Loup also served as a parish church. After the destruction during the Hundred Years War , the priory was restored and converted into a commander . In 1567 there was pillage by the Huguenots . The priory was dissolved during the French Revolution . Although the church was listed as a historical monument in 1846 , extensive restoration measures were only initiated after the war of 1870/71 .
architecture
Exterior construction
The church is made of small rubble stones. The almost square bell tower rises above the crossing , which is pierced on all four sides by four slightly pointed sound arcades . The two floors of the tower are by cornices divided on corbels rest.
The unadorned choir consists of three semicircular apses , which are covered by a common gable roof . The central apse dominates the two side apses in height and width. It has three windows, the north and south apses each have a window.
On the west facade there is a two-storey vestibule, which is covered by a ribbed vault and the corners of which are reinforced by buttresses in the basement . On three sides of the basement there are high, stepped, pointed arcades . A rectangular stair tower adjoins the north of the vestibule. The upper floor is broken up by unadorned arched windows.
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portal
The vestments of the portal are adorned with three column figures on both sides. The left inner sculpture represents the apostle Paul , the right inner sculpture the apostle Peter . The other persons, a queen, a male figure, a king and a bareheaded figure cannot be clearly identified. The Trumeau pillar is also covered with a sculpture depicting St. Lupus, provided.
On the tympanum one is Christ in Majesty represented Christ in the mandorla surrounded by the symbols of the Evangelists . The lintel is adorned by eight apostles , framed by arcades . In the middle, under Christ, stands Mary , carved in her own stone block, which protrudes from the relief plate of the lintel and rests on the pillar of the Trumea. The scenes on the archivolts' vaults are dedicated to Mary and the childhood of Jesus and tell episodes from the legend of St. Lupus, the patron saint of the church. Birds, griffons and other fantasy figures are depicted on the capitals , some with human heads and amidst foliage.
inner space
The three-aisled nave is divided into six bays . On both sides of the main nave, six arched arcades open to the aisles. The first four yokes rest on pillars with pilasters , the last two yokes on pillars or pillars with integrated pillars. The windowless central nave is illuminated through the sleek arched windows of the side aisles. These are covered with groin vaults, which are underpinned by round arched belts with a square profile. The first four bays of the central nave have a ribbed vault , the last two bays have a groined vault, which was pulled in in 1874 on the site of the original barrel vault .
One above the crossing spans dome two-stepped squinches . The transept arms , which barely protrude beyond the nave, are barrel-vaulted like the choir square. The side aisles of the choir, which are wider than those of the nave, have a groined vault.
Murals
From the original wall paintings from the 12th century, only individual fragments such as the portrait of a saint on the south wall of the choir have survived. The existing paintings were made from copies made in 1874 before the originals were destroyed.
literature
- Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (ed.): Le Guide du Patrimoine. Ile-de-France . Hachette, 2nd edition, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-01-016811-9 , pp. 606-606.
- Anne Prache: Romanesque Île-de-France (Paris and surroundings) . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-429-01029-2 , pp. 393-403.
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-et-Marne . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-100-7 , pp. 1271-1273.
Web links
- Église Saint-Loup in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 10.1 ″ N , 3 ° 12 ′ 33 ″ E