11 juin 2007
Saint Andre Church
The
name of the borough of the coast Saint Andre come from “Santi Andréa of
Costa”, appeared for the first time on documents at the average age.
This city is thus old and has many buildings presenting an architecture
of the XI ème, XVI ème and XIX ème centuries.
The Coast-Saint-Andre,
capital of the Beaver, ideally are placed at crossroads between Vienna
and Valence, Lyon and Grenoble. Located at 400 meters of altitude, on
the blank of a slope, it offers a broad panorama on the Alps and lets
guess the relief of the Cevennes and the Central Solid mass.
Its
central position makes of it an ideal city-stage for the tourists and
the pélerins of Saint-Jacob de Compostelle, of passage in our area.
Church Saint Andre:
It was built between 1088 and 1102 by the monks of Saint-Ruf, called “cleaned white”. Artists, they had a workshop of sculpture where they cut the stone and engraved the columns (those current of the chorus). Its bell-tower is of Romance origin.
The
church present of the styles novel, Gothic and modern which give to
this building an original aspect. The archaeological study of this
complex building remains to be made. The oldest part is undoubtedly the
transept crossing with its cupola on horns, of Romance time. The brick
bell-tower which develops its two bay stages above, is not without
evoking that of the cathedral of Grenoble and, like, could date to him
from the beginning of XIIIe century. As for the nave, variously
altered, one reconnait several periods of the Gothic art there.
Registered
with the additional inventory of the Historic buildings, the church is
equipped with exceptional accoustics. It accomodates, inter alia, the
concerts of the Berlioz Festival in August.
Saint Andre
Brother of Simon-Pierre, holy Andre born in Bethsaïde, the north of the Lake Tibériade, lived with Pierre saint in Capharnaüm, and was initially, like saint Jean, a disciple of Jean-baptiste saint. The Greek tradition calls André Protoclet, i.e. the first called of the twelve apostles.
After saint Pierre and holy Paul, holy André is the apostle who has the most churches in France where he is the owner of Agde, Avranches, of Bordeaux, of Orange and Burgundy whose duke Philippe III the Good put under his protection the order of the Golden Fleece. Abroad, holy André is the owner of Amalfi, Baeza (Andalusia) who was torn off with the Moors on November 30, 1227, of the Brabant, of Brescia (Italy), of Brunswick, of Scotland, of Holstein, Lunebourg (Hanover), of Hungary, of Mantoue, Minden (Westphalia), of Pesaro (Italy), of Ravenne, Rochester (county of Kent), of Russia, of Santander (Spain), of Sleswig, Verceil (Italy) and Wells (county of Somerset). André saint who is the owner of fresh the water fish fishermen, of the fishmongers and the rope-makers, is also called upon by the women who seek a husband and those want to become mothers.
The
various mentions of relics or buildings dedicated to the André apostle
with the Early middle ages are registered, for the majority, in the
surface of development of piety martyriale in Ve century. Left the
areas Mediterranean and Burgundian, its worship was spread towards the
west and the north of Gaule.
Saint Andre in toponymy with the Middle Ages
The Saint-Andrew term was rather widely diffused on the French territory. The departments which have a high rate of Saint-Andrew toponyms locate at the south of the Have-Geneva line: the Aude, Gard, Herault, Ardeche, the Sarthe, Isere and Ain. The surface of development of the worship of André saint thus covers the provinces with Languedoc and Dauphiné (Viennese), which have several buildings in the past dedicated to André saint. The Saint-Andrew term could penetrate in France by the Mediterranean, with the favour of the exchanges with the East, to go up then along the axis rhôdanien. (http://theses.enc.sorbonne.fr/document24.html)
We have in the church the presence of the relics of Théodore.Et saint a wheel representing the instruments of its martyr.
It
is true that the accoustique one is marvellous. Hardly entry, I was
accomodated by the splendid organ stop of a solitary musician.
Nothing in particular, if it is not, behind the furnace bridge, a soft energy. And small something in the baptistry.
The market
The Markets, a building in vault with wood frame, were built towards the end of the 13th century by Maître Jacques of St George.
The
exact date of construction of the building undoubtedly ranges between
1257 and 1309, date from which it is mentioned a “house of market”.
With 76 meters length on approximately 29 broad, it is about the one of
the vastest markets of medieval France. The roof, with four sides, is
made of timber of the area.
The
Market is made up of five alleys. Formerly, each one was reserved to
the of the same tradesmen profession: tisserands, drapers, merchants,
cuiratiers and escoffiers (shoe-makers) and butchers.
Classified historic building, the Market continues to accomodate as in the past the market Thursday morning. Place of exchange, meeting and contact, the Market is also a cultural place where the concerts of the Berlioz Festival occur.
Nothing crowned, but remarkable.
Remarkable trees
The
coast Saint Andre has two trees more than centenaries, two willows,
which unfortunately soon will be encircled by an allotment, way of
Pollard.
One of them presents an original association: an ash, of about fifty years, pushed in the middle of its trunk.
They are for the moment in the middle of rubble, and the noise of the bulldozers must break well the ears of those which could have found refuge in their foliages…
