Guided tour: «Between art & history»

Name: Guided tour: «Between art & history»
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Martin

From its splendid stained glass windows to its magnificent altarpiece in baroque style, the Saint-Martin church reveals its charm. New! Discover the museum space in the heart of the bell tower.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 10:00, 14:30Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entry without reservation/ Departure every 30 minutes.

©Ville de Pessac

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

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Gratuit

About the location

Église Saint-Martin

Place de la Ve République, 33600 Pessac

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The church of Pessac no longer has architectural remains from the Romanesque period, at which time the church is attested. The term Saint Martin indicates an ancient origin of this church, before the XII century. The archaeological excavations, the historical archives and the architectural analysis of the present church, tell us about the history of the building over the centuries.
It is built on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa and on a probable Merovingian cemetery. This is evidenced by the discovery, in 1882, of a pavement of Gallo-Roman mosaic and that of a limestone sarcophagus.
The base of the bell tower, from the medieval period, is currently the oldest part of the building, with foundations dated to the end of the Gothic period. In the 17th century, the Jesuits of the Collège de la Madeleine restored the church: the bell tower rebuilt and raised, is topped with a pavilion roof; an elegant portal framed by flat pilasters, crowned with a pediment opens on the ground floor.
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