"Tiny Lives" by Charles-Henry de Pimodan at Saint Joseph’s Church

Name: "Tiny Lives" by Charles-Henry de Pimodan at Saint Joseph’s Church
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Eglise Saint-Joseph

Exhibition of drawings by Charles-Henry de Pimodan

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entrance - Information: Pontivy Town Hall - Heritage Service on 02 97 25 00 33

©Renan Lescoat - graphiste

The Church of Saint Joseph was built between 1863 and 1869 in the Gothic Revival style, thanks to the financial assistance of Emperor Napoleon III.
This church invites you to go in search of imperial symbols present in its architecture and interior decorations, while admiring its stained glass windows, made between 1991 and 1994, on the theme of the four elements.
The weekend of the European Heritage Days will also be the last opportunity to discover the exhibition "Minuscules Vies" by Charles-Henry de Pimodan as well as a series of models of the chapels of Pontivy and the surrounding area.

About the location

Eglise Saint-Joseph

Square Joseph Lenglier, 56300, Pontivy

Morbihan
Bretagne

From the beginning of the XIXth century, a religious building appears on different projects for the napoleonic district of Pontivy. It was nevertheless necessary to wait for the Second Empire so that a church goes out of earth. Launched thanks to the financial assistance promised by Napoleon III during its passage in Pontivy in 1858, the construction site(work) took place between 1863 and 1869\. It is in the Parisian architect Marcellin-Emmanuel Varcollier, recommended by the princess Bacciochi, cousin of Napoleon III recently installed(settled) in Colpo, that they owe the plans of this neo-Gothic church the architectural sculpture of which was realised by the Pontivyen Joseph Le Goff. The early exhaustion of the imperial subsidy left the incomplete church: the arrow surmounting(overcoming) the tower - bell tower and the sacristy, between others, were never realised. In 1985, the labour union(syndicate) between local councils for the tourist development of the canton of Pontivy, supported by the regional preservation of historic monuments, threw(launched) an international competition(help) for the creation of contemporary stained-glass windows. Sixty-seven teams existent from all Europe answered it. Compound(Made up) of painters Patrick Ramette and Catherine Viollet, of masters(teachers)-glaziers Sylvie Gaudin and Giles Rousvoal, and Duchemin et Gaudin workshops, equips prize-winner realised the current stained-glass windows between 1991 and 1994 on the compulsory theme of four elements. Thanks to this construction site(work), the church San José de Pontivy appears among the big(great) French historic monuments today having participated in the renewal of the art of the contemporary stained-glass window from 1980s.