St-Pierre-St-Paul (Aumale)
The Catholic parish church of Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul in Aumale , a town in the Seine-Maritime department in the French region of Normandy , was built in the 16th century. In the choir and transept are stained glass windows from the Renaissance received. The church, consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul , was added to the list of architectural monuments in France in 1862 as Monument historique .
history
After the previous church was destroyed in 1472, during the Hundred Years War , when the city was sacked by the troops of Charles the Bold , a new church was built from 1508. In the middle of the 16th century the choir and the transept were completed. The work on the nave was interrupted several times and lasted until 1610. At the end of the 19th century, the nave was adapted to the flamboyant style of the choir under the architect Lucien Lefort .
architecture
Exterior construction
The church is built on the plan of a Latin cross . The square, slate-covered bell tower rises up on the west facade, with a pointed arched portal cut into the basement. The portal of the south facade is intricately carved with Renaissance decor and was probably created by the sculptor Jean Goujon in the 16th century .
inner space
The nave has three aisles. The two-storey elevation with arcade zone and upper cladding windows is typical of the Gothic churches that were built in northern France at that time. The transept and choir are the same height as the nave. A lower chapel adjoins the choir in the north and south. The vault keystones are partially decorated with colored figures.
Leaded glass window
The lead glass windows in the choir and transept were installed between 1530 and 1550. They are attributed to Nicolas Leprince's workshop in Beauvais . The windows were restored and supplemented several times in the 19th and 20th centuries by various workshops.
The window shows an episode from the life of the apostle Paul, possibly his conversion before Damascus ( Damascus experience ). In the foreground, an old man, tied up, is sitting on a cart, the wheels of which are flames. In the background you can see a man hanged on a tree. |
On the right of the window the apostle James , Saint Barbara and a bishop are depicted. The chain of the Order of St. Michael can be seen above St. Barbara . The donors are shown on the lower discs. |
Several fragments of a Renaissance window are built into the window. The upper left scene depicts the crucifixion of Christ. Mary and the apostle John stand to the side . On the pillars are the dates 1547, the year the window was created, and 1957 or 1967, the restoration dates. An angel making music is depicted in the disc of the tracery. |
The window is attributed to Nicolas Leprince and dates from around 1540. It is only preserved in fragments on which one can recognize the sermon of the apostle, his decapitation and St. Francis of Assisi . In the lower part there are remains of an inscription. |
The window with scenes from the life of St. Nicholas of Myra is the most completely preserved window in the church. It depicts the miracles of the saint on two levels in five lancets each. In the lower scenes, Nikolaus saves three people condemned to death from their execution, he brings the three scholars who were already cured in the salt barrel back to life and he saves a ship in a sea storm. The upper lancets represent his episcopal ordination. |
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Furnishing
- The pulpit dates from the 16th century. The pulpit body is decorated with wood-carved panels, which are framed by egg bars and dewbands and carved with relief representations of the evangelists, apostles and other figures from the Bible.
- The group of figures of the Entombment dates from 1882.
pulpit
Entombment
literature
- Martine Callias Bey, Véronique Chaussé, Françoise Gatouillat, Michel Hérold: Corpus Vitrearum . Les vitraux de Haute-Normandie . Monum, Éditions du patrimoine, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-85822-314-9 , pp. 264-265.
Web links
- Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul patrimoine-religieux (accessed January 29, 2015, in French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pulpit in Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 8.7 ″ N , 1 ° 45 ′ 10 ″ E