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2012-08-19 Ennezat, Collegiate church, Saint-Victor and Holy Crown, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne 51
the Romanesque front
Collegiate église de Saint-Victor and Holy Crown Ennezat .
If you know the founding date of the chapter , nothing is certain about the church. Indeed, it seems unlikely for specialists it was built at the same time ( 1060 ). On the one hand, the first building of its kind in consistent Auvergne were created only from the beginning, even the second half of the xii th century (Notre-Dame du Port, Orcival, St. Austell in Issoire ... ). On the other hand, the nave is not going in the direction of a building in xi th century but in the second half of the xii th century. The church has a special as it has a dual style: Romanesque and Gothic , Gothic architecture based on Romanesque architecture.
The narthex, the nave and transept are the only parts preserved Romanesque. They are arkose , which come from a limestone quarry north of the department. The nave of the church is 18 meters long, which is rather large (slightly larger than Notre-Dame du Port at Clermont-Ferrand ).
Gothic parts are: a chapter house (converted sacristy from the xvi th century) and a turret stairs pepper, the choir with its ambulatory and five radiating chapels. The choir is particularly long and impressive and was well liked by the canons Ennezat to enhance their prestige. Gothic parts are andesite , that is to say, lava stone (also called Volvic stone ), which gives a black color to this part Gothic, as opposed to the light color of the arkose.
The church has undergone many changes in the xix th century, during campaigns by local architect Mallay for Historical Monuments .
Inside, the decorative program of the game is notable for its Romanesque capitals. It shows well the tent called the usurer. It is a dead man raised by two demons. He wears around his neck a scholarship and between his feet is carved a aulula (a kind of clay pot filled with coins). A banner held by two scribes bears a Latin inscription: Cando usuram acepisti mea fecisti which can be translated. When you have practiced usury thou hast done my work.The other capitals are rather influenced antiquisante: mermaids, centaurs, griffins and eagles. You can also see in the transept two triplets in participating in triangular miter and decor typical of the Auvergne.
Above the transept is a cupola resting on oval tubes, 15 meters high, and supporting a tower at two levels.
The choir consists of a Gothic apse , an ambulatory and five chapels radiating. It is divided into three vessels on an oblong plan. You can see four prominent keystones representing a layman, a crowned figure with nails in hand (Saint-Louis), a bishop and finally the Archangel Michael. The chapels are dedicated to the Sacred Heart to St. Michael at St. Victor and Holy Crown to Saint Blaise and finally to St. Joseph .
You can see in the gothic church two remarkably preserved murals.
South side is a wax painting representing the Last Judgment, in shades of red and gold. Christ at the center, sharing the elect and the damned, and sends the first in the heavenly city while waiting for the second St. Michael in Hell .
The second painting is a fresco divided into two horizontal registers. On the lower register is painted a presentation of the family of Canon Robert Bassinhac , donor of the painting. The upper register is a representation of Three Dead and the Three Loud. You can see two noblemen on horseback and a woman, all three hunting, facing three skeletons. These three gentlemen are in fact their own death, it is a warning.
2012-08-19 Ennezat, Collegiate church, Saint-Victor and Holy Crown, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne 51
the Romanesque front
Collegiate église de Saint-Victor and Holy Crown Ennezat .
If you know the founding date of the chapter , nothing is certain about the church. Indeed, it seems unlikely for specialists it was built at the same time ( 1060 ). On the one hand, the first building of its kind in consistent Auvergne were created only from the beginning, even the second half of the xii th century (Notre-Dame du Port, Orcival, St. Austell in Issoire ... ). On the other hand, the nave is not going in the direction of a building in xi th century but in the second half of the xii th century. The church has a special as it has a dual style: Romanesque and Gothic , Gothic architecture based on Romanesque architecture.
The narthex, the nave and transept are the only parts preserved Romanesque. They are arkose , which come from a limestone quarry north of the department. The nave of the church is 18 meters long, which is rather large (slightly larger than Notre-Dame du Port at Clermont-Ferrand ).
Gothic parts are: a chapter house (converted sacristy from the xvi th century) and a turret stairs pepper, the choir with its ambulatory and five radiating chapels. The choir is particularly long and impressive and was well liked by the canons Ennezat to enhance their prestige. Gothic parts are andesite , that is to say, lava stone (also called Volvic stone ), which gives a black color to this part Gothic, as opposed to the light color of the arkose.
The church has undergone many changes in the xix th century, during campaigns by local architect Mallay for Historical Monuments .
Inside, the decorative program of the game is notable for its Romanesque capitals. It shows well the tent called the usurer. It is a dead man raised by two demons. He wears around his neck a scholarship and between his feet is carved a aulula (a kind of clay pot filled with coins). A banner held by two scribes bears a Latin inscription: Cando usuram acepisti mea fecisti which can be translated. When you have practiced usury thou hast done my work.The other capitals are rather influenced antiquisante: mermaids, centaurs, griffins and eagles. You can also see in the transept two triplets in participating in triangular miter and decor typical of the Auvergne.
Above the transept is a cupola resting on oval tubes, 15 meters high, and supporting a tower at two levels.
The choir consists of a Gothic apse , an ambulatory and five chapels radiating. It is divided into three vessels on an oblong plan. You can see four prominent keystones representing a layman, a crowned figure with nails in hand (Saint-Louis), a bishop and finally the Archangel Michael. The chapels are dedicated to the Sacred Heart to St. Michael at St. Victor and Holy Crown to Saint Blaise and finally to St. Joseph .
You can see in the gothic church two remarkably preserved murals.
South side is a wax painting representing the Last Judgment, in shades of red and gold. Christ at the center, sharing the elect and the damned, and sends the first in the heavenly city while waiting for the second St. Michael in Hell .
The second painting is a fresco divided into two horizontal registers. On the lower register is painted a presentation of the family of Canon Robert Bassinhac , donor of the painting. The upper register is a representation of Three Dead and the Three Loud. You can see two noblemen on horseback and a woman, all three hunting, facing three skeletons. These three gentlemen are in fact their own death, it is a warning.