11 juin 2007
Roussas
Nested
around a escarpé rock piton, Roussas carries the traces of a past which
goes up with antiquity. Old defensive village, perched on its rock
piton, it remains the ruins of a castle of the XII ème century and some
religious buildings.
To
go up there, it is necessary to circumvent the hill of Majeyras. There
the site of an old place of devotion in Saint-Joseph is.
The Saint Raphaël's church in Solérieux
Solérieux
is only one very small village made sleepy with the sun, posed in a
plain, which gathers some beautiful houses, of the barns in ruin and
some farms still in life.
Isolated
and far from the large axes, agricultural and without claim, one would
forget it if it did not conceal a rare pearl, the church Saint Raphaël.
Founded
by Templiers, this church is a wonder of the wonders, a pure Romance
style of Provence of the XII ème century, without any addition nor
modification. It was built at some distance from the old village
strengthened for a long time abandoned on the hill.
The nave,
destroyed, is occupied by the old cemetery. This church depended on the
chapter of the canons of the cathedral of Saint-Paul-tois-castles.
Built
in a superb stone become gray with time, it is drawn up in the middle
of the fields of lavender, proud and noble, admirable of harmony.
With its feet, a small water level surrounded by dry stone walls of a superb color pale gray, supplements the unit.
http://www.provenceweb.fr/f/drome-provencale/solerieux/solerieux.htm
The old monastery of Saint-Pierre and the church Saint-Blaise
This
old church, originally under the term of Our-Lady-of-churches, was the
seat of a priory depend on the abbey of Cluny and was ruined as of the
end of the XIV ème century.
This site, désservi by an old way, of Pontaujard with Nyons, was occupied as of the ancient time.
Excavations
showed the width of the building (tois naves of four spans, bedside
with tois apses) which replaced with the XI ème and XII ème centuries a
older church.
Rupestral tombs were dug in the rock, overhanging the site.
The Saint-Vincent vault with the cemetery of Grignan
The
oldest monument of Grignan. From primitive Romance style, the vault
dates from the XI ème century. Its so pure frontage as well as the
regularity of its construction in small apparatus, make a remarkable
building of it.
In
this cemetery existed formerly two churches, dependent since 1105 on
the abbey of Tournus: Notre-Dame, destroyed, belonged to the diocese of
Saint-Paul-three-castles and Saint Vincent with the diocese of Die.
Mentioned
in a bubble of the pope Pascal II, April 24, 1105, it depended on the
priory of Tourrettes and was parish church since 1280 until the XV ème
century. The interior is worthy of outside. Its apse, arched in bottom
of furnace, however appears to have undergone many transformations.
The
goods of the abbey of Tournus were attached to the chapter of Grignan
into 1539 little before its installation in collegial Saint Saver.
The
very sober nave was lengthened of a span towards the west. The gate is
a beautiful work of the beginning of the XIII ème century in the
Romance tradition. The interior is worthy of outside.
Its apse, arched in bottom of furnace, however appears to have undergone many transformations.
The apse with external sides was rebuilt with the XVII ème century.
Our-lady of Béconne, the Rock-saint-Secrecy
Our-lady
of Béconne to the Rock-saint-Secrecy is also called Notre-Dame of the
dent. With the Middle Ages, it is the seat of a parish of the diocese
of Die.
The
church is surrounded by a cemetery and offers a remarkable sight on the
ruins of the castle of Béconne. Considered for its miraculous cures, it
became a place of pélerinage: many a ex-votos is deposited there.
The
church dates from the XIV ème century. The single nave, decorated in
the east and north with one liter funerary to the weapons with the
Lords with Vesc, is covered with a Romance vault in cradle.
With
the XVII ème century, the building increased St: one adds side chapels
to it and one takes again the chorus. The apse presents from now on a
flat bottom and a vault out of full-swifter painted in blue.
It makes 16 m length, 4,25m broad, and 4m top. In the side chapel of right-hand side a primitive statue of the virgin, known as miraculous is. Unfortunately the church was closed when I arrived.
Our-Lady-of-the-Calle in Dieulefit
Mentioned
since 1031 in “Gallia Christiana” like a vault of the “vicaria” of
Comps, NotreDame-of-the-Calle in Dieulefit, in ruin for a few
centuries, has been in the cemetery, in the west of the city.
Built
on a Gallo-Roman site, it presents nothing any more but some sections
of wall in small apparatus, covered with ivy. In the east, the vestiges
of the Romance church rest on older walls, between which one discovered
parts of marble coating in “opus sectile”, and tombs concealing of the
armours, probably those of Vesc which are buried here.
Indeed,
the coseigneurie of Dieulefît was bet between the lords of Comps, then
of Vesc and the Hospital ones of very close Midsummer's Day of
Poët-Laval. Our-Lady-of-the-Calle was used to the wars of religion.
It
had been restored at the time Gothic, which not its ruin a few years
afterwards. In the west on the other hand, the analysis of the walls
makes it possible to restore a building of polygonal plan.
http://www.centcols.org/les_rendez-vous/damian/monuments_romans_suite.htm
Saint-Pierre of Vesc
“Vaiesch”
in 1113, “Vaiesco” in 1409 (of Latin “episcopatum” which gave as old
French “evesquet”), Vesc is an old stronghold of the bishops of Die.
The Saint-Pierre church is that of a concerning priory abbey of Cruas in Vivarais. Romance building, it remains only the nave and the Western frontage: a nave of three spans, letting appear, outside, in the southernmost frontage, wrenchings of the buttresses and the two bays in semicircular arch, sealed today, which lit the second and third spans, the first, longer, remaining blind.
This
same Southern wall well also shows that the construction of the
building developed at the same time Is in West but also, by stages,
upwards: indeed, whereas the average limestone apparatus faces the low
part of all the nave and the totality of the rise in the third span,
the high parts of the first two spans are assembled - because of a stop
of the building site, of a change of company or a provisioning near a
new career - in a russet-red sandstone good different from material
used for the remainder of the monument.
The Western frontage is the most remarkable part of the building, with
its gate in semicircular arch made of two curves separated by a torus
falling down on two posts with decorative capitals, with the reasons
archaïsants, the archivolt being decorated with teeth of gears and a
mouluration which diminishes on two consoles, that with right-hand side
presenting a couple with human heads (givers?). One of the trenchers
is decorated interlacing and the basket of the capitals covered with
stylized foliages, weak relief but carefully engraved, with the arrises
and, so hanging the light well: of not to doubt they are sculptures
there leaving the workshop to which one owes the decoration of the
platform of Cruas (Vivarais).
One
will observe finally, here and there, in the frontages, of many Romance
re-employments: fragments of decorative reliefs in the Southern wall,
of the decorative sizes and the marks of drudges (A) in the Western
frontage and, in the Northern wall, whose facing was re-installed, of
the numbered archstones (I, III) and of the marks of drudges: BA, G,
NR, R, W. All these characteristics make it possible to locate the
construction of this priory particularly attaching about the middle of
XIIème century.
The church Saint-Jean-Baptist of Crupies
Established
on a Gallo-Roman site above the course of Roubion, it appears in the
texts in 1107, but its origin is much older (perhaps this was a
baptismal church), as the fragments employed again above the door prove
it.
Y
are carved in flat part of the branches of vine, with the very cut out
sheets, that picore a bird, work préroman, even pre-Carolingian.
Church depending on the priory of Bourdeaux, itself depend on the
Benedictine abbey of Savigny, close to Arbresle (the Rhone), the
building was in ruins after the wars of religion. Replacing in XVIle
and XVIlle centuries the church Holy-Catherine of the perched village
of Vialle, it was transformed into Protestant temple of 1806 to 1904,
closed down, then restored in 1960.
The
single nave includes/understands two spans, whose walls are reinforced
arches relieving in full-clotheshanger. The transoms which receive the
latter are made of two cavets superimposed or a surmounted cavet of a
torus, not very frequent mouldings in the vicinity. At the time
traditional, one made disappear a splash plate with the pilasters,
rebuilt the vault and the frontage, opened large windows.
The
small russet-red sandstone hardcore apparatus of the gouttereaux walls
of the nave contrasts with thinner bases, where mix with the hardcores
Roman limestones, of the Eastern part of the building: the connection
is seen well outside with the second span, in the south.
The church was in work when I came in the country.
Contrast
appears also Net inside, when one arrives at the span of chorus, vast
and strange, deprived of relieving arches. Two high pilasters, laid out
slightly in oblique for corresponding well to the buttresses and
carrying decorative sizes, mark the entry of the span. Like those of
the apse, they are surmounted by a transom which decorates, only luxury
of the building, a plank of two or three spirals, to which can be added
half. The reason, derived from the rinceau, meets at the time
Carolingian and two of the planks preserve, between spirals, the
deformed memory of a small sheet of which the significance any more was
not perceived. In the hemicycle of the apse, striking it also by its
nudity, is noticed a hardcore base supplemented by bricks. In the south
in the span a door old, contiguous opens with the one of the very
massive buttresses, built partly with the same apparatus as the
building, which proves that this one was arched as of the beginning.
Span
and apse appear contemporary, or little is necessary oneself some, of
the installation of the monks of Savigny in several churches around
Comps, and in particular in Bourdeaux, since 1031. The simplicity of
the structures, the release of volumes due to the nudity of the walls,
the use of the small apparatus, the archïsme of decoration do not
contradict this dating; the reason for the spirals is found in
re-employment with Comps. As for the nave, with its modénature, it
appears to go up in Xlle century.
http://www.centcols.org/les_rendez-vous/damian/monuments_romans.htm
The Saint-Vincent's church of Taulignan
The
church is that of a priory depend on the abbey of Ruf Saint. It is
mentioned since 1119 in a cartulaire of Die. With the XVI ème century,
it receives the title of parochial, in the place of Saint hones,
ruined. Saint Vincent is installed with summon borough of origin
castrale organized in a concentric way around the castle and destroyed
with the revolution.
The church was partly rebuilt with the XV ème century and at the time modern.
It includes/understands a single nave and two spans, as well as a transept and a semicircular apse. The Romance parts are visible outside, at the base of the southern and western walls.
In
addition, one opeut to notice many re-employment in the repairs:
medieval inscriptions in the northern buttress of the Western wall,
small heads carved in the southern wall.
The
church includes/understands an ossuary, that of Martin Saint of ormeaux
who lived with the VII ème century. Appointed bishop of
Saint-Paul-three-castles into 657, it was reached by leprosy and was
withdrawn in Taulignan, in a small house near the Letz river. It is
there that he died.
The ossuary exposed here was in a vault of the
XI ème century built on the spot of its death, vault Saint Martin, now
agricultural field.
The temple of Taulignan
A
first temple is built in Taulignan in 1601 pennies the reign of Henri
IV. It is destroyed into 1684 little before the Revocation of the Edict
of Nantes. Nearly two centuries later, in 1868, is built out the
ramparts the current temple.
Architecture in rotunda touched only one reduced number of temples, of which some in Provence.
It is the time when the shapes of the churches reformed evolve/move, sometimes semicircular, octagonal or round.