St-Pierre (Plouyé)
St-Pierre is the Roman Catholic parish church of Plouyé ( Département Finistère ) in Brittany .
history
The Breton place name Plouyé means community of the Ia . The Celtic Saint Ia is still the local patroness. For the patron saint of the parish since the Middle Ages, however, only the sacred is Peter occupied. The historian Nicholas Orme suspects that the veneration of St. Ia, because of the age of the parish, even originated in Plouyé and could have reached Cornwall from here .
The current church of St-Pierre rises on the site of an older previous building. The bell tower of the old church was replaced in 1679/80 by the structure still preserved today. In 1857 the church itself was considered dilapidated. The nave of the church was then reconstructed in Gothic form between 1862 and 1864 according to plans by the architect Jules Boyer . The six-bay, elongated central nave is flanked by side aisles at the same height. In the east, the choir head shows a three-sided conclusion.
literature
- Nicholas Orme: The Saints of Cornwall . Oxford University Press 2000, ISBN 0-19-820765-4 , p. 145.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '52.2 " N , 3 ° 44' 8.2" W.