Legend of the founding of the city Guîtres
He left with immense treasures, accompanied by a retinue of nobles and military men.
The beauty of the landscape, the sights surrounding the nipple which was built City Guîtres he made such an impression on the field he ordered the construction of a beautiful city surrounded by high walls flanked by towers with its palaces, chapels and other monuments.
These important buildings were destroyed after his death by the Goths and Normans, and debris remained abandoned for several centuries; Abbey Guîtres having been founded at the beginning of the twelfth century (3) is therefore the time that seems dated the bas-relief of the Visitation.
This stone remained, with the ruins of monuments Merovingian was reused in the masonry the church during its construction and is currently used to support the pit to the beautiful fifteenth-century structure that covers the building.
These dimensions are: height 0.50, width 0.30, thickness 0.25; very hard limestone.
necessities of the construction does not permit me to remove the stone, but I wanted to provide you reproduction of this work by several points that stings the curiosity of archaeologists and raises issues that we have a update the solution.
(3) Guinodie attributed, first abbot, the founding of the Abbey Guîtres (1108) - History of Libourne, Volume III, p 311.
EUDE natural son, (grand son of Caribert, King of Paris (561 567), of a king of the Franks), ruled the death of his father until the majority of his brother, the legitimate son to whom he gave up the throne. Lutece
He left with immense treasures, accompanied by a retinue of nobles and military men.
The beauty of the landscape, the sights surrounding the nipple which was built City Guîtres he made such an impression on the field he ordered the construction of a beautiful city surrounded by high walls flanked by towers with its palaces, chapels and other monuments.
These important buildings were destroyed after his death by the Goths and Normans, and debris remained abandoned for several centuries; Abbey Guîtres having been founded at the beginning of the twelfth century (3) is therefore the time that seems dated the bas-relief of the Visitation.
This stone remained, with the ruins of monuments Merovingian was reused in the masonry the church during its construction and is currently used to support the pit to the beautiful fifteenth-century structure that covers the building.
These dimensions are: height 0.50, width 0.30, thickness 0.25; very hard limestone.
necessities of the construction does not permit me to remove the stone, but I wanted to provide you reproduction of this work by several points that stings the curiosity of archaeologists and raises issues that we have a update the solution.
(3) Guinodie attributed, first abbot, the founding of the Abbey Guîtres (1108) - History of Libourne, Volume III, p 311.
History of the Abbey Church "Our Lady of Guîtres"
(Historic Monument since September 2, 1901)
Abbey Guîtres depending on the order of Cluny was founded in Roman times. It remains today that this great abbey church dating from the XIth s, so it's the church of an abbey of Benedictine monks. Religious heritage was ruled by an abbot Abbot (religious). He lived in this monastery from 4 to 14 monks. We only
unfortunately only a few traces of the abbey was built between 1060 and 1070 on the ruins of an old church destroyed by fire of the Normans (879 892).
This church was built during the eleventh century builder of giving it acoustic qualities like those found in all these buildings of the eleventh and twelfth s where s Religious developed choral singing.
is a church-oriented: his side is facing east, so the west facade faces west.
It was built for every four centuries hence the change in architecture.
Its dimensions: 57.60m long, 15.8 wide and 17m high.
Guîtres was a frontier town in the Middle Ages.
Here is the country Gabaye and on the other side of the river is beginning Guyenne. He had to cross this river (the Isle) and there were under to win and not religious the last to get paid a grant to cross the river (men, animals, goods).
We are on route to St Jacques de Compostela, here we are in mission. The land is very rich in Saintonge pilgrims and thousands have been buried in the abbey. Inside you will find a plaque which stood the altar of the Brotherhood of St Jacques pilgrims Guîtres.
Abbey Guîtres depending on the order of Cluny was founded in Roman times. It remains today that this great abbey church dating from the XIth s, so it's the church of an abbey of Benedictine monks. Religious heritage was ruled by an abbot Abbot (religious). He lived in this monastery from 4 to 14 monks. We only
unfortunately only a few traces of the abbey was built between 1060 and 1070 on the ruins of an old church destroyed by fire of the Normans (879 892).
This church was built during the eleventh century builder of giving it acoustic qualities like those found in all these buildings of the eleventh and twelfth s where s Religious developed choral singing.
is a church-oriented: his side is facing east, so the west facade faces west.
It was built for every four centuries hence the change in architecture.
Its dimensions: 57.60m long, 15.8 wide and 17m high.
Guîtres was a frontier town in the Middle Ages.
Here is the country Gabaye and on the other side of the river is beginning Guyenne. He had to cross this river (the Isle) and there were under to win and not religious the last to get paid a grant to cross the river (men, animals, goods).
We are on route to St Jacques de Compostela, here we are in mission. The land is very rich in Saintonge pilgrims and thousands have been buried in the abbey. Inside you will find a plaque which stood the altar of the Brotherhood of St Jacques pilgrims Guîtres.
visit outside
- Place linden (classified site) that has been completely redone (1996.99) identical to its past, limes defaulters were replaced and the road serving the former treated.
A particularity such as gas lighting was installed in Sarlat before the grand portal.
Here there is no road
What festivals were held there, the fiddler danced Gabaye generations of troubadours. - The great portal Saintongeais (west facade) in its lower part from the thirteenth century was restored around 1846 and restored in 1987 and fully in 1994, on this occasion the weather vane is repeated identically, its implementation can renew the old tradition of the feast of the cock. It is a great portal
Saintongeais, Saintonge country is 9 km from here.
door lintel is right, with 6 archivolts in the center flanked by two doors and feints. Above is a gallery dominated by a large gable dated XV only drilled a triple Gothic window, decorated with cul-de-lamp with a human head. Two sides oculus lightens and brighten the interior the entrance.
A beautiful bead adorned with foliage and star-shaped ring around the column. - North Front : On the other hand, on the northern flank, a skirted the church cemetery, landslides and the presence of a cemetery here did that for several centuries, the lower third north was buried, as can still judge the Romanesque portal. It was in 1848/1851 that this cemetery is transferred out of the city which allowed the drilling Rue de l'Abbaye.
In 1965/1968 we owe the creation of paved walkway allowed back into service multilobed door that was used by pilgrims to Santiago to get to the altar, St Jacques de Compostela was face within the church. - Portal northern facade : Prime portal arch with two archivolts ogival thirteenth century seems to have been walled up. At least according to some, it is not a portal but a recess overcoming a sépulture.Les first three windows are Gothic. Both are sealed.
- Gate multilobed : The second portal is also the thirteenth him lobed arches characteristic of the style "Moorish" brought from Spain to France by pilgrims of Saint Jacques de Compostela. This type of gate is quite common in our region. The first church was to stop at this alignment. Above this niche contains a novel very low relief mutilated (a seated figure with legs and bare feet).
- tombstones : In the ditch tombstone fragment (relative to the tomb) built with this incomplete epitaph: "the 14th day of the Kalends of July Arnaud died a natural right, son the master of this work. "
- Portal North : The third novel northern portal is a rich, pure Romanesque style, it is flanked by two doors and topped by three feints archivolts adorned with beads human heads representing the 7 peach capital (Envy, anger, gluttony, lust, pride, laziness, lying). The birds perched on quadrupeds adorning one of the capitals are of oriental origin. Notice in the right corner a big Gallo-Roman marble gray.
- The apse : The oldest parts dating from the twelfth century the north wall of the transept, the apse with ambulatory and radiating chapels. The vestry removed during the renovation of the choir and was in the northern part of the apse was built in 1704. The apse has three apses chapels of the apse as well as those of the two arms of the transept chapels.
The large apse is crowned by a cornice, are surrounded by small arches.
The upper wall, above the chapels, was heightened and pierced with loopholes during the Wars of Religion. There are still traces of projectiles. Chavet the wall is crowned in the attic of a well preserved cornice - The Belfry (on the north transept)
accommodation, it has 2 bells have need to strengthen internal structure built As the vibrations became operational threat to the safety of the entire construction. Built in 1950, the oak frame is established in a flag and covered with flat tiles - The south facade is almost entirely hidden by the houses lining the streets of the priory.
Ultimately they took the place of the old convent buildings, or what remained of the revolution of 1789. It should be noted that the first of them is contiguous to the tip of the right arm transept. It is the site of the former prior's house, which unfortunately did not survive the ravages of time and the evil genius of the man that finds its outlet during certain periods of unrest. The second presents in her garden remains evocative of the old cloister besides a few crows of the south facade reveal the presence of former convent buildings that relied on the facade of which nothing remains. - The roof : That of the nave was restored in all it few years ago with the old tiles carefully recovered. By its steep slope, its scope, it impresses the visitor, it is an everyday symbol of the resident.
Those of the transept and apse more traditional in appearance require repairs.
The Historical Monuments Fund, under the responsibility of Mr. Goutal, has established a very complete record whose importance and interest have not escaped Mr. Curator of the Cultural Affairs in Bordeaux.
Visit Interior
printing felt, at the entrance of the church, is striking. The visitor overlooks the nave and choir, size, simplicity Benedictine, majesty, unity, scheduling immediately strike the eye that dominates the vast edifice of the top fifteen steps of the grand staircase recently redone and providing access thereto.
Built in the shape of a Latin cross, it consists
- a nave of six bays (portion between two brackets, braces or pillars)
- with two side aisles or low
- a bedside right transept (gallery which separates the choir of the great nave and which forms the arm of the cross).
- A choir surrounded by an ambulatory (manway which surrounds the choir). All
exceptionally beautiful or poignant was detailed in the life of the abbey through the centuries.
- PILLARS engaged in the southwest corner (2) and Northwest (3) are the thirteenth century.
The north is the pillar leaf curl. The marquee south
with characters with human heads. (Riders of the Apocalypse). The first four pillars of the nave were reinforced by half-engaged columns or barrels of pitch pine covered with stucco in 1839, when restoring to the court which was built four bays closest to the entrances. - THE VAULTS fall on the side walls, on cul-de-lamp depicting people squatting on the north someone playing the bagpipes with a small figure next to him in the face, on the south wall, a man with a purse hanging from her neck, two characters at his side he put a finger on the mouth and with the other hand seem to comb.
- the nave and aisles originally novels have been remade several times, (the Roman vaults were quite low). Before 1838, the four bays of the west (the closest from here) had no vaults, the frame was apparently due to a collapse.
We refit the arch by consolidating the pillars of wood (barrels pitchpine: exotic softwood tree) covered with stucco in 1839. - STAINED: They were produced between 1864 and 1873 (except, of course, the window of the apse central walkway that is from 1966 and are gifts from families Guîtres.
- THREE SPANS framed by round pillars, are keystone pending the sixteenth century. The central motif of the past was broken. They are lit by arched Romanesque windows.
THE FIRST TWO PILLARS IN NORTH ROMAND were restored in their own half in 1976 to place the organ. - ORGAN : we owe a priest Guîtres Haverlan Paul (1971-1984)
That excited about the acoustic qualities of the abbey but also by his penchant for music and singing plans to build an organ worthy of the monument.
It was inaugurated April 23, 1978.
it was built in 1976 by the factory Beuchet Debierre Nantes.
It includes 25 stops and 1763 pipes. . - the transept was probably originally a ribbed primers which remain at the top of the three pillars. On the square was erected in 1613 a Roman tower.
In 1819, because it undermined the soundness of the building This tower was destroyed and replaced by another built at the end of the north transept arm and the arch was replaced by a cupola. - THE DOME was pierced a bull's eye in 1830 (dove representing the Holy Spirit)
- CHORUS majestic roundabout, surrounded by an ambulatory barrel vault, is the most interesting part of the building.
In 1960 the curate Henry David M Dean (man and determined scholar undertakes the realization of a project that is motivated to renovate the interior of the abbey. He succeeded magnificently
his business four years since the choir is completely rebuilt under the leadership of the union of historical monuments.
It has been completely redesigned between 1960 and 1965 from the original plan.
- Reversal and consolidation of the pillars, Marquees reinvented from the board expressing his art Benedictine greater purity, rehabilitation of the three chapels of the ambulatory and ambulatory magnificent novel with lowered floor and facing the clear coating. - FRAMING (XV)
From the late fifteenth century, it is exceptional.
Comprising three parts above the nave and every aisle.
large shell-shaped boat returned, she is chestnut and drums have unusual lengths and are pegged on the old wood from the forest of the Double made famous by the son of Charlemagne and the Jacquou Crisp. The dimensions of this framework are impressive (50m long, 14m high). It is half the height of the building. The impression is striking to find under the hull of an ancient ship of the Royal with its marbling and her keel. A pair of two were HUGE maintains perfectly straight ridge. The oldest parts date from 1130-1135
Framing secondary choir is unfortunately in poor condition and requires a substantial refurbishment. In 1987-89 total repair of the roof and complete renovation of the structure under the authority of the Chief Architect of Historic Monuments Fund, the purchaser of the frame is a naval officer who went to La Rochelle with The same procedures ancestral renovating this unique structure that has supported since eight centuries the brunt storms brought by the westerly winds. The most important pieces of wood have 8 centuries of age. - the transept (NORTH) barrel vault, is to head right.
Each arm has an apse and dead-furnace and lighted by windows Romance, the most beautiful being on the north side above the front door Romanesque north.
It represents the Tree of Jesse, or family tree of Christ.
In the same transept arm, pointed to the baptismal font in the form of tents and nearly the chapel, a painting: Baptism of Christ by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan River, the work of master Roganeau artist Bordeaux author of the frescoes that adorn the ceiling BOAT SUSPENDED was offered ex-votos (Table object or plaque that hung in a church or holy place, following a vow
or in memory of a great theater graduated, he was executed for the church in 1944 and Guîtres offered by a family Local.
Just Jean is dedicated stained glass overlooking the altar dedicated to St Peter. - The transept
He had originally received a ribbed primers which remains at the top of the three pillars. At this point was raised in 1613 the first Roman tower. In the nineteenth century it was replaced by the current, at the tip of the arm of the north transept, and the vault was replaced by a ribbed dome pierced with a bull's-eoil representing the Holy Spirit.
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