St-Pierre (Soubise)

Saint-Pierre church

Choir head and bell tower

The Catholic Church of Saint-Pierre in Soubise , a parish in the Charente-Maritime department in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine , is essentially a Romanesque building from the 12th century. The church consecrated to the Apostle Peter originally served as a collegiate church and belonged to the former diocese of Saintes . In 2009 it was added to the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique .

history

Only the pillars of the crossing and two capitals remain from the Romanesque church building of the 12th century . The Gothic pointed arches under the crossing date from the time the church was renovated in the 15th century . During the Huguenot Wars , the choir and nave were largely destroyed. In the years 1700 to 1712 the church was rebuilt by Hercule-Mériadec de Rohan-Soubise (1669–1749), who carried the title of Prince of Soubise and whose mother Anne-Julie de Rohan-Chabot was a mistress of the French King Louis XIV. was.

architecture

Exterior construction

The west facade from the 18th century is structured by pilasters with Ionic capitals and crowned by a triangular gable. An oval glare field is cut into the facade above the portal. The massive square bell tower rises above the crossing, the pointed spire of which was replaced by a gable roof in the middle of the 19th century . On the west side of the south transept you can see a walled up portal framed by arched archivolts .

inner space

inner space

The single-nave nave is covered by a barrel vault underpinned with belt arches . The crossing is vaulted by an unusual octagonal dome. After Hercule-Mériadec de Rohan's death in 1749, a mourning ribbon, a liter funéraire , with his coat of arms was painted on the inside walls of the church in his memory .

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  Longhouse wall with mourning tape

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  Liter funéraire

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  Octagonal dome

Web links

Commons : Saint-Pierre (Soubise)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Patrimoine Mairie de Soubise (French text, accessed December 17, 2018)
• Soubise, église Saint-Pierre Églises en Charente-Maritime (French text, accessed December 17, 2018)
• Église Saint-Pierre de Soubise L'Office de tourisme Rochefort Océan (French text, accessed December 17, 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Église Saint-Pierre in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 45 ° 55 '36.2 "  N , 1 ° 0' 26.7"  W.