Ste-Madeleine (Montagrier)

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The former Romanesque priory church of Sainte-Madeleine in the southwestern French town of Montagrier in the Dordogne department in the old cultural region of Aquitaine is one of the rare buildings with a triangular choir . Church construction has been recognized as a monument historique since 1912 .

Church Sainte-Madeleine in Montagrier

location

The church is located in the middle of the cemetery of the village about 300 m north and about 145  m high, which is about 2 km from the north bank of the river Dronne . The closest cities are Périgueux, about 25 km to the south-east, and Ribérac, about 15 km to the west .

history

The church was built in the 12th century as a priory church of the traditional Benedictine abbey of Brantôme ; during the French Revolution it was converted into a parish church. Since the Romanesque nave was dilapidated and also became too small for the town's population, which had grown rapidly in the 19th century, it was demolished in 1897 and rebuilt on a somewhat larger scale. The crossing tower was also raised by one floor. However, the Romanesque three-cone choir with two adjacent radial chapels has been preserved .

architecture

Stone material

The three-conch choir is made entirely of stone ; only the basement of the crossing tower is made of quarry stone . The old nave was probably also made of broken stone or field stones; the new building was largely made of precisely hewn stones; consisting of brick masonry barrel vaults , however, plastered.

Choir

The choir solution of the church is unique in the region: the middle apse is accompanied by two side apses arranged at right angles to it, about the same height, which puts the building in the tradition of the three-church choirs. In addition, two smaller radial chapels were built in the corners of the choir, which results in a staggered height that culminates in the crossing tower. While the three larger apses were stabilized by buttresses , these are missing on the two radial chapels.

Longhouse

The neo-Romanesque nave, which was built in the 19th century and divided by blind arcades, is a little higher, wider and longer than its predecessor. The outer buttresses continue inside as pilasters ; Capitals are missing, instead there is a surrounding cornice . The pilasters are continued in the barrel vault as belt arches .

Crossing and apses

The particularly highlighted by double transverse arches crossing with one on Pendentifs dormant dome surmounted. The three larger apses are divided inside by windowed blind arcades and each have a dome vault . The arches of the central apse are separated by three-quarter columns , of which the two central ones are emphasized by simple but different vegetable capitals; the fighting zone of the right capital shows a checkerboard pattern .

Furnishing

A plate with a monogram of Christ over one of the crossing arches found during excavation work probably dates from the 16th century. The two altars in the radial chapels are replicas of the 19th century.

Hosianna cross

On a cubic base in the cemetery a composite of stone drums is fluted column with a wrought iron cross on the top. The monument is interpreted as a whole as a Hosianna cross (Croix hosannière) .

literature

  • Marquis de Fayolle: Église de Montagrier. in: Congrès archéologique de France 90e session . Périgueux 1927, pp. 383-391.

Web links

Commons : Église Sainte-Madeleine (Montagrier)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église Sainte-Madeleine - Montagrier in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Église Sainte-Madeleine - Montagrier in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Montagrier - map with height information
  4. ↑ Église Sainte-Madeleine, Chrismon - Montagrier in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 45 ° 16 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 0 ° 28 ′ 46.7 ″  E