St-Pierre (Épernon)

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Parish Church of Saint-Pierre
Painted wooden beam ceiling

The Catholic parish church of Saint-Pierre in Épernon , a commune in the Eure-et-Loir in the French region of Center-Val de Loire , was on the site of the 15th century Romanesque built earlier building. The church has a painted wooden beam ceiling from the 16th century. In 1942, the church consecrated to the Apostle Peter was added to the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique .

history

In June 1940, as a result of a bomb strike, the vaults that were drawn in in 1885 in the main nave and the side aisles collapsed and exposed the roof structure with its painted wooden beam ceiling from the 16th century. Under the altar a crypt from the 17th century was revealed, which the landlord , Goth de Rouillac, who held the title Duke of Épernon, had laid as a burial place for his family.

architecture

Spolia on the facade

Exterior construction

The west facade is structured by flat, stepped buttresses. In the middle, under the gable, a tracery window opens . The right one of the original three portals is walled up. The main portal, which is embedded between two buttresses, is framed by a round bar . Stone fragments of the Romanesque predecessor church are built into the left portal.

On the north side rises the squat bell tower, also supported by buttresses, which is covered with a slate roof.

inner space

Ribbed vault of the south apse
Central nave

The nave has three aisles , the main nave and the two side aisles each open into an apse . The southern apse is covered by a ribbed vault. The keystone is decorated with a sword and two keys.

Wide pointed arches , supported by massive columns, open the main nave to the aisles. The pointed chancel arch is located on slender, with leaves and buds capitals carved pillars.

  • North aisle

  • South aisle

  • Column with bud capital

literature

  • Center. Châteaux de la Loire . Hachette, Guides Bleus, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-01-015564-5 , p. 309.

Web links

Commons : St-Pierre (Épernon)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église Saint-Pierre in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Le caveau de l'église Saint-Pierre d'Épernon (Eure-et-Loir) et ses vestiges: protocole d'étude et premiers résultats . Revue archéologique du Center de la France, Volume 53, 2014 (accessed on February 21, 2016, in French and English)

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 ′ 34.6 "  N , 1 ° 40 ′ 39.3"  E