Cultural mediation at the Romanesque church of Notre Dame

Name: Cultural mediation at the Romanesque church of Notre Dame
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Eglise Romane Notre Dame

Volunteers from the Association for the Preservation of the Romanesque Church and the Chemillois heritage will be present to inform you about wall paintings and their restoration work.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

©C.Bessonneau

It has often been retained from the Romanesque church Notre Dame, the elegance and beauty of its Romanesque bell tower, remarkable in Anjou. But the interest of this building does not lie only in its bell tower. Indeed, the study of the building reveals many occasions and evolutions from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period. It is a building that is constantly evolving to adapt to the ideologies, fashion and functions of its time. We will see that the Romanesque church Notre Dame has real treasures both from an architectural and iconographic point of view.

About the location

Eglise Romane Notre Dame

Place Notre Dame Chemillé 49120 Chemillé-en-Anjou

Maine-et-Loire
Pays de la Loire

Saint-Pierre is the first church in Chemillé. Founded in the Carolingian era, it was entrusted in the 11th century by the lord Pierre de Chemillé, to the Benedictine monks of Marmoutiers and the surrounding town and many seigneurial rights. Saint-Pierre remained for a long time the only parish church of Chemillé. Until the 14th century, his prior also administered the cures of Saint-Gilles, Notre-Dame, La Tourlandry, La Chapelle-Rousselin and Trémentines. This building was built in the 11th century, enlarged and furnished with its current porch in the 12th century. From the end of the Middle Ages, the church has 6 chapels founded and maintained, including by local lords. In 1752, 4 monks reside in the priory that serves it. It was sold as a national property in 1791 and then, again recognized as a place of worship in 1807\. Saint-Pierre was the subject of a major restoration project in 1902 led by the architect Beignet (church of Chanzeaux). The vaults are redone in brick, the nave pro