Église paroissiale Saint-Serge - Ancienne abbatiale
Place du Chanoine Bachelot, 49000 Angers
- Maine-et-Loire
- Pays de la Loire
On the site of the medieval abbey of Saint-Serge are read three essential architectural eras: the 12th century of the abbey, the Mauritian reconstruction of conventual buildings (with 2 cloister wings), a 3rd cloister wing designed in the 19th century by architect Joly Leterme. It is in this last period that the chapel of the major seminary (major seminary which then occupies the whole of the former abbey) belongs. Joly Leterme takes up, for this last campaign, the Mauritian perspectives of the 18th-19th century; the monumental plan of the new chapel is thought in remarkable harmony with the new cloister wing: the interior volumes are those of"an immense cathedral choir in which the services are done with more pomp than in any other church". Rectangular nave preceding an apse of 5 steps; 4 bays of high vaults inspired by the Gothic Angevin... The whole cloister helps with the vaulted rooms, the sacristy and the chapel of the seminary are of a very obvious architectural quality whose es
Etiquetas
Édifice religieux, Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire, Monument historique, Site patrimonial remarquable
Ville d'Angers - Frédéric Chobard
