St-Martin (Sucy-en-Brie)
The Catholic parish church of Saint-Martin in Sucy-en-Brie , a parish in the Val-de-Marne department in the French region of Île-de-France , was probably built in the 12th century. In 1926, the church was added to the list of architectural monuments in France as a Monument historique .
architecture
Exterior construction
The 28 meter high bell tower rises in the southern corner of the choir. It is covered with a gable roof and is dated to the 12th century. Alongside the choir , the transept and the side chapels from the 13th century, it is one of the oldest parts of the church. Like the nave , the west facade dates from the 17th century. Massive buttresses structure the outer walls.
inner space
The three-aisled nave opens in the east into a just closed choir, which is covered with a Gothic ribbed vault.
Capitals and consoles
Capitals and consoles
Capitals and consoles
Leaded glass window
The lead glass windows were donated to the church between 1870 and 1895. The three choir windows depict scenes from the legend of St. Martin, the patron saint of the church. They were made by the Haussaire brothers' stained glass workshop . The right window bears the signature FR. HAUSSAIRE REIMS 1895 . The windows in the side aisles depict the temple corridor and the Visitation of Mary, the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Holy Family in the carpenter's workshop and the twelve-year-old Jesus among the scribes. One window shows the baptism of Jesus, the window of the Chapel of Mary shows the Assumption of Mary.
Passage to the Temple of Mary
Adoration of the Shepherds
Jesus among the scribes
literature
- Georges Poisson (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments d'Île-de-France . Éditions Hervas, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84334-002-0 , pp. 780-781.
Web links
- Église Saint-Martin topic-topos.com, accessed on March 18, 2017 (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Église Saint-Martin in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 8.1 " N , 2 ° 31 ′ 16.5" E