Visit of the church Saint-Aignan de Colméry

Name: Visite de l'église Saint-Aignan de Colméry
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Aignan

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, take advantage of a free visit (which can be commented if the visitor wishes) to the church of Saint-Aignan in Colméry. The building of the church...

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, take advantage of a free visit (which can be commented if the visitor wishes) to the church of Saint-Aignan in Colméry. The building of the church has not been modified since the late Gothic period. You can admire a painting from the late 17th century.

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Église Saint-Aignan

Colméry 58350

Nièvre
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

The Church Saint-Aignan of Colmery Historique: The church was ended by 1536 as gives him(it) to think of the cartouche located above the portal(gate), supported(born) by two eagles, containing this date. During revolution, in 1791, the church put for sale is bought for 40 books(pounds) by Jean-Baptiste Matignon, it is up to shone to make it demolish(destroy). In spite of several demands of the revolutionary committee of Donzy, he(it) manages to let things drag on, by storing his(its) wood in the church and by accommodating in it his(its) cows. Terror was passed(spent,crossed), the church is returned to the clergy which strives to repair it: in 1800, accounts mention repair of the vault and of windows, of purchase of ornaments and of books(pounds) of singing(song). In 1813, a first bell is put back in place; one second (1092 kg) will be it in 1830, but she(it) cracks, her(its) metal was used on the cast iron of two stupid news(short stories) installed(settled) in 1882\. In 1854, the cemetery which surrounds the church is transferred on the road of Lakes to its current location. At the end of the XIXth century, the made priest Étienne Baudin clear the inside of the church, transforms the baptismal bottoms, instal(settles) three stony altars and drills three Gothic windows in the arcature of the portal(gate). Closer of us, in 1992, the roofing of the church was entirely redone. Architecture: The church is of Gothic style revival, its plan is cross-shaped. The chorus(choir) is in flat bedhead. The transept and both spans of the nave, flanked(thrown) by shoulders, have their vaults trimmed with mixed round and prismatic limbs taking off up to earth in the nave. The south arm of the transept was the manorial chapel (badge of the family of The River) windows are Gothic, those of the chorus(choir), of the north arm and of the Western wall of the nave are in remplages flamboyant, other trèflées. Several funeral paving stones are visible on the ground, but their registrations(inscriptions) are erased(removed) except for one of the XVIIth century carrying the epitaph of Jean Poisson. The portal(gate) is in basket arch lined with a garland of vine branches, opened on a high and wide Gothic arcature upper part(party) of which is occupied by a window. A turret of staircase occupies the north angle of the facade. The bell tower, massive and square built on the south arm of the transept is posterior in the construction of the church. The set(group) was registered on the additional inventory of Historic monuments in the course of the seventies. Bibliographic sources(springs): - Lucien Charrault, on 1939, A beautiful sacerdotal face(figure), Mr abbot E. Duvernoy, Nevers. - Nivernaise Mgr Crosnier, 1860, Hagiography or lives of the saints and other characters who built the diocese of Nevers by their virtues, Nevers. - from Soultrait, 1875, archaeological Directory of the department of the Nièvre, Paris, national Printing 24-12-2012