St-Nicolas (Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines)

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Saint-Nicolas parish church, west facade
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The Catholic parish church of Saint-Nicolas in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines , a parish in the Yvelines department in the French region of Île-de-France , is a former priory church that was damaged by fire in the 12th century on the site of an older one Church was built. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra . In 1993 it was added to the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique .

history

The oldest part of the church is the crypt , which was built before 949 and was part of a predecessor of today's church. At the site of the crypt, St. Arnulf of Yvelines (Arnoul des Yvelines), a legendary saint who is also venerated as the Bishop of Tours , is said to have been buried in the 6th century. In the crypt, a memoria , a burial place, and a fenestella , a view from the church, were found. Guido von Rochefort , Count of Rochefort , had a Romanesque church built over this crypt in 1104 after his return from the crusade , which was consecrated in 1129. From this three-aisled , 41-meter-long building, the portal, the walls of the apse with their buttresses, the central nave arcades and the round-arched ceilings windows as well as a barrel vault to the right of the choir have been preserved. After the old wooden ceiling collapsed at the end of the 14th century, a new wooden ceiling was installed in the main nave and the south aisle in the second half of the 15th century. In the 16th century the church was rebuilt in the Flamboyant Gothic style. The three-storey bell tower, the side portal spanned by a basket arch and the vault of the north aisle, which was doubled between 1526 and 1533 and used as a parish church, date from this period . The western three bays were not erected until 1902.

architecture

West portal

Exterior construction

The west facade is reinforced by two massive buttresses. A round arched portal has been cut into the ground floor, framed by archivolts and slender pillars decorated with capitals . The tympanum is decorated with a checkerboard pattern. A large, four-lane tracery window , which was installed in 1877 and extends into the gable, opens above the portal . In the southern corner of the choir stands the bell tower covered with a hipped roof, to which a narrow stair tower is attached.

inner space

inner space

The three-aisled nave is two-story and divided into five bays . The ogival central nave arcades rest on massive columns decorated with simple capitals. The main nave, the south aisle and the semicircular closed choir are covered by wooden barrels supported by carved beams. The ends of the beams, shaped like the mouths of monsters, lie on carved wood consoles on which various people dressed in the fashion of the 16th century are depicted. In two windows in the choir there are two, probably reused columns from the early Gothic , the shafts of which are carved with figures.

  • Re-used column in the choir

  • Wooden ceiling with carved beams

  • Vault in the north aisle

Murals

On the two columns in front of the choir and on the north side of the nave, fragments of wall paintings are preserved, the chronological order of which is not mentioned in the literature. In a scene in the north nave, Christ is depicted in the middle, surrounded by St. Martin , who sits on a horse, and St. Eustachius , in front of whom a deer with a crucifix in its antlers stands. Several people are depicted on the right column at the entrance to the choir, while a figure with a halo can be seen on the left column.

  • Wall painting in the nave

  • people

  • Figure with halo

  • Fragment of a wall painting

Choir window

Leaded glass window

The patron saint of the church, St. Nicholas, is depicted on the lead glass window in the choir. At his feet is a book with his attribute , the three golden balls. Next to him kneels a mother with her baby who implores a Madonna with the baby Jesus enthroned on a cloud and surrounded by a halo.

Furnishing

  • The carved female figure holding a book in her left hand is supposed to represent the holy Scariberge, the wife of Saint Arnulf. The figure is dated to the late 15th century.
  • The carved figure of St. Fiacrius dates from the 17th century.
  • The year 1781 is carved into the baptismal font . The oval bowl is gadronized and made of pink marble .

  • Holy Scariberge

  • Saint Fiacrius

  • Baptismal font

literature

Web links

Commons : Saint-Nicolas (Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église Saint-Nicolas in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Holy Scariberge in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Saint Fiacrius in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  4. ↑ Baptismal font in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 17.8 ″  N , 1 ° 56 ′ 24.9 ″  E