Ste-Radegonde (Jard-sur-Mer)
The Catholic parish church of Sainte-Radegonde in Jard-sur-Mer , a municipality in the Vendée department in the French region of Pays de la Loire , is a Romanesque fortified church from the 11th / 12th. Century, which was enlarged and partially renewed in the 17th century. In 1947, the church consecrated to St. Radegundis was added to the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique .
history
The patronage of the church is reminiscent of the former priory of the Ste-Croix abbey in Poitiers , the oldest women's convent in Europe, founded around 558 by St. Radegundis . In the year 732, the nuns from Poitiers, fleeing from the advance of the Muslim Arabs , settled in Jard-sur-Mer with the relics of their monastery founder. After Charles Martell's victory in the Battle of Tours and Poitiers , they moved back to Poitiers, but determined a plot of land in Jard on which a church in honor of St. Radegundis was to be built. No remains of this church have survived.
A written mention of today's church can only be found in the 16th century. During the Huguenot Wars , the church was looted and set on fire in 1568. During the repairs in the 17th century, the original stone vault was replaced by an open wooden structure, and the Marienkapelle was added to the north side of the choir. During the revolution , the church was spared from destruction because it served as a meeting hall.
architecture
Exterior construction
The square bell tower rises above the crossing . It is covered with a pyramid roof and has a small lantern-like structure. Under the roof approach, a series of runs figurative sculpted corbels . The west facade is supported by two mighty buttresses. A round arch portal is cut into the facade, which is framed by a keel arch studded with crabs . The tympanum is decorated with fish-bubble tracery and an empty figure niche with a canopy. A two-lane tracery window opens above the portal.
inner space
The church is built on the plan of a Latin cross . The single nave nave is divided into three bays . It is covered by an open roof structure and flows into a recently closed choir in the east . The southern transept has two chapels, one of which is the baptismal font .
Lady Chapel
The Lady Chapel, built in the 17th century and attached to the choir in the north, is covered by four ribbed vaults with keystones . The vault ribs are supported by a large column in the middle of the room, on the walls they are supported by brackets . A Romanesque arched window and three Gothic tracery windows illuminate the chapel.
Chapel with baptismal font
Lady Chapel
Dome under the crossing
Furnishing
- The main altarpiece - like the colored carved figure of St. Radegundis - is largely from the 17th century. The Holy Radegundis holds in his left hand a model of a scepter from her abbey founded in Poitiers and in the right hand as a sign that she is a wife of the Frankish king I. Clotaire was.
- The picture depicting the Mother of God distributing rosaries to nuns and monks bears the signature: “P. Peinus 1628 ". In the foreground are the French King Louis XIII. and his wife Anna of Austria and Gaston , the king's brother, Pope Urban VIII and Cardinal Richelieu . The siege of La Rochelle in 1627/28 is depicted at the feet of Mary , which ended with the victory of the royal troops over the Huguenots. The smaller side scenes are dedicated to the mysteries of the rosary.
- Numerous grave slabs are embedded in the floor.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vendée . Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-118-X , pp. 1136–1138.
Web links
- Église Sainte-Radegonde Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux
Individual evidence
- ↑ Église Sainte-Radegonde Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux (French text, accessed on January 21, 2019)
- ↑ Église Sainte-Radegonde in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Retable du maître-autel in Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Le Rosaire in Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 46 ° 25 ′ 12.7 " N , 1 ° 34 ′ 25.7" W.