St-Yves (La Roche-Maurice)

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Saint-Yves parish church
inner space

The Catholic parish church of Saint-Yves in La Roche-Maurice , a parish in the Finistère department in the French region of Brittany , was built in the early 16th century. The large leaded glass window in the choir with scenes of the Passion and the rood screen has been preserved from the middle of the 16th century . In 1916, the church with the ossuary was added to the list of architectural monuments in France as a Monument historique .

history

The church was probably built on the site of the castle chapel of the Lords of Rohan , who had owned the castle of La Roche-Maurice since around 1330. In 1363 the chapel was consecrated to Saint Ivo Hélory , the patron saint of lawyers who is venerated as the national saint of Brittany. The current church dates from the early 16th century. The oldest date, the year 1539, can be found on the large Passion window in the choir. The year 1589 is carved on the bell tower.

architecture

Bell tower and west portal

The tower on the west facade has two bell floors, which are surrounded by balustrades and studded with pinnacles at the corners . They are crowned by an octagonal stone top decorated with crabs . The west portal is cut into the ground floor of the tower, framed by a gable and two columns with Ionic capitals . In a niche above the cornice stands the sculpture of St. Ivo, the patron saint of the church. In the niches of the two buttresses you can see the figures of the Dominican Vinzenz Ferrer, who was born in Valencia and who died in Vannes , and the Franciscan Paschalis Baylon , who also came from Spain .

South portal

South portal

The church has a richly carved portal on its south side instead of the vestibules that are otherwise common in Brittany. It is carved in Kersantite and is dated to the 1550s. The robes and the archivolts are decorated with small figures depicting the apostles with their attributes . Two arched doors are cut into the portal. On Trumeaupfeiler under a canopy one is Stoup attached, decorated in the Renaissance style with heads. The figure on the tympanum may represent the abbot and Breton Saint Maudez. A further keel arch decorated with a finial surrounds the portal.

  • Canopy of the holy water basin

  • James the Elder

  • Apostle Peter

  • Matthew with scales

inner space

Painted wooden ceiling
Farmer with a plow pulled by oxen
Horse-drawn cart with a dead man

The three-aisled nave is divided into five bays and is covered by a wooden barrel . The original ceiling painting has been preserved in the central nave and choir . Between many stars, fleur-de-lys and angel heads you can see the monograms IHS for Jesus Christ and MA for Mary . The ceiling beams are decorated with small figures such as the apostles or the symbols of the evangelists , reliefs with figural scenes are carved into the beams, the ends of the beams are carved with the mouths of monsters. The reliefs depict grotesque people, lions holding heraldic shields, and angels with banners. One scene shows a farmer behind a plow pulled by four oxen, another scene shows a cart pulled by two horses with a corpse lying on it. An inscription with the year 1561 is carved on a beam. The beams, which support the wooden barrel like belt arches , are decorated with carved keystones at their apex .

  • Painted wooden ceiling with sculpted beam ends

  • Painted wooden ceiling with a sculpted beam end

  • Painted wooden ceiling with carved keystones

  • Painted wooden ceiling with carved beams

Rood screen

Crucifixion group
Coffered ceiling and caryatids

The wooden rood screen is dated to around 1560. It consists of a choir screen , a gallery and a crucifixion group . On the side facing the nave, the gallery is decorated with high reliefs depicting nine apostles and three popes. A crucifixion group crowns the rood screen. On both sides of the rood screen, under carved canopies, on the left, St. Margaret , at her feet her attribute , the winged dragon, and on the right, St. Anne , who teaches Mary how to read. The side facing the choir has bas-reliefs depicting saints and Jesus Christ in the center.

The ceiling under the gallery consists of carved wood cassettes with turned hangers . It is carried by caryatids , which are designed as grotesque figures with human grimaces or the heads of monsters. The choir screen has slender, turned columns and richly decorated panels. The small arcades above the pillars are decorated with busts of saints and fantasy figures.

  • Longhouse side of the gallery with high reliefs

  • Longhouse side of the gallery with high reliefs

  • Choir side of the gallery with bas-reliefs

  • Arcade arches of the choir screen

Leaded glass window

Passion window

The large stained glass window in the choir with scenes from the Passion was created by Laurent Le Sodec and is dated 1539.

Further equipment

Saint Ivo between a poor and a rich
  • The group of figures depicting Saint Ivo between a poor man and a rich man dates from the time the church was built.
  • The figure of the Madonna and Child, Notre-Dame du Bon Secours , originally stood in the abandoned church of Pont-Christ, also built in the 16th century.
  • The pulpit is a work from the 17th century. The basket is decorated with the reliefs of the four evangelists and their symbols. An angel with a trumpet stands on the cover .

literature

  • Brittany . Hachette, Guides Bleus, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-01-015841-5 , pp. 328-329.
  • Françoise Gatouillat, Michel Hérold: Les vitraux de Bretagne. (= Corpus Vitrearum ). Volume VII, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2005, ISBN 2-7535-0151-3 , pp. 187-189.
  • Pierre Chamard-Bois: Une passion de lumière. Le vitrail de la passion de l'Église de La Roche-Maurice (Finistère) . Edition ARSB, Le Faou 2005, ISBN 2-9513000-5-0 .
  • Association pour la Promotion des Enclos paroissiaux de la Vallée de l'Élorn : Les enclos paroissiaux de la Vallé de l'Élorn. La Roche-Maurice . Édition LBcommunication, Daoulas o. J., ISBN 978-2-9567188-0-2 .

Web links

Commons : Saint-Yves (La Roche-Maurice)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église Saint-Yves in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Françoise Gatouillat, Michel Hérold: Les vitraux de Bretagne. (= Corpus Vitrearum ). Volume VII, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2005, ISBN 2-7535-0151-3 , p. 187.
  3. ↑ Église Saint-Yves infoBretagne.com
  4. ^ Rood screen in Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  5. ↑ Passion Window in Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  6. ↑ Saint Ivo in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '23.1 "  N , 4 ° 12' 11.2"  W.