Discovery of the restored portal of the basilica of Longpont sur Orge

Name: Découverte du portail restauré de la basilique de Longpont sur Orge
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Garde

September 17 Exhibition and discovery of the phases of restoration of the portal of the basilica. September 18 Exhibition, discovery and guided tour of the basilica.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

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September 17: Exhibition and discovery of the phases of restoration of the portal of the basilica. Several actors of this restoration will be present to explain the different phases and activities related to this project. As a reminder, this project was selected in 2019 by the BERN Heritage LOTO. This restoration benefited from the exceptional collaboration of experts at work on Notre Dame de Paris LRMH for the analysis of stones and polychrome, sorbonne-university and its historians of the middle ages for the understanding of the work and its modifications. A masterpiece of the 13th and 15th centuries rich in teachings
September 18 Exhibition, discovery of the phases of restoration of the portal and guided tour of the basilica.

À propos du lieu

Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Garde

Place des Combattants 91310 Longpont-sur-Orge

Essonne
Île-de-France

Romanesque church of the Clunisian priory of Longpont, place of pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. Mural painting early twentieth century. Very rich reliquary, exceptionally visible. From the priory Notre-Dame itself, only the old priory church has reached us. Built in the 11th-12th centuries, its lower parts are Romanesque and its vaults are original. His reliquary is the second in France, after that of Toulouse, and first by the number of his relics. The site of Longpont-sur-Orge has the characteristic of having preserved a whole environment witness to the role played by the Clunisian monks in medieval society. Thus, the tithes barn, built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. and enlarged in the eighteenth century, forms a quadrilateral of 40 m by 20 m with two sides, a nave and twelve pillars. The 18th century priory farm adjoins this barn. The hamlet, built around the priory complex, is also preserved, with its five narrow streets converging towards the basilica. Greenery, old