St-Yves (Vannes)
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St-Yves is a Roman Catholic chapel in the French commune of Vannes in Brittany . It is under the patronage of St. Ivo von Kermatin .
Current condition
The St-Yves Chapel is currently undergoing a full restoration and is therefore closed to the public. It is located on Place Maurice-Marchais , next to the former Jules-Simon Jesuit school and near the town hall .
history
The first Catholic college in Vannes, which already had a chapel, was built in 1577 and taken over by the Jesuits in 1629/1630 . The chapel was restored in 1616 and rebuilt between 1661 and 1685 according to plans by the Jesuit architect Charles Turmel. The project was financed by Catherine de Francheville , who also founded an order of sisters and a rest home for women in Vannes. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on September 27, 1661 by Guillaume Bigarré. The architect Mathurin Bussionère from Nantes designed the vault of the chapel. The facade, modeled on the Italian Baroque in the Jesuit style, was completed in 1678 by the architect Jean Caillot from Vannes. The construction of the chapel dates back to a time when numerous church communities were established in the city and important religious buildings such as monasteries, rest homes and chapels were built.
The chapel has been registered as a historic monument ( Monument historique ) since January 25, 1929 .
architecture
The white stone chapel stands on a granite base . The two-story building is adorned with a high front gable on which the Jesuit monogram IHS ( Jesus Hominum Salvator ) is engraved. The simple spatial architecture of the chapel comprises only a single nave and a small choir . The patroness Catherine de Franceville had the lintel of the entrance portal inscribed with the words Fundavit eam Altissimus (“It was the Almighty who founded this chapel”). The governor of the historic Vannetais landscape , Claude de Lannion, donated three thousand livres in 1684 for the creation of a retable by the altar artist Jean Boffrand from Nantes. The central part with black marble columns and Corinthian capitals is flanked by two side wings with niches for two statues. The altarpiece in the middle is dedicated to the canonized Jesuit founder Ignatius of Loyola .
See also
literature
- Lebrun François, Antebu Élisabeth: Les Jésuites ou la gloire de Dieu . Stock-Antébi, 1990.
- Builds Claudie: La chapelle Saint-Yves . In: Vannes, ville d'art et d'histoire. Le tour de la ville en 24 fiches. Sheet 10.
Web links
- Saint-Yves Chapel at Topic Topos (French)
- Saint-Yves chapel at the Brittany official monument portal. (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry no. PA00091778 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ Photo and information on the reredos. (No longer available online.) Topic Topos, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 7, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry No. PM56001338 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 32 " N , 2 ° 45 ′ 37" W.