EGLISE SAINT-PIERRE DES CARMES
Built at the beginning of the 1988th century, outside the city walls, the Saint Pierre des Carmes church (listed as a Historic Monument in XNUMX) has always marked the life of its district on the edge of Dolaizon.
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Today at the crossroads of major traffic routes, between the main post office and the SNCF train station, the church is an essential monument dear to the hearts of the city's inhabitants.
The primitive church consisted of a porch, a nave with six bays, a five-sided apse. Over the centuries the building, built mainly from volcanic breccia, has been remodeled several times.
The church that we know today is the result of major work carried out between 1862 and 1866, then in 1945 with the construction of side aisles connected to the nave by large broken openings.
The building thus doubled its width and now has three naves.
The facade overlooking the Dolaizon has two three-story octagonal bell towers, framing a central gable pierced with a rose window.
Modern stained glass windows by Watkin (1968) adorn the bays of the apse, the XNUMXth century stained glass windows, and those of the side aisles.
The carved wooden pulpit from the 1620th century and several paintings deserve attention, in particular the “Vision of Saint-François” (XNUMX) by the painter Guy François. You can admire at the Crozatier Museum the painting on canvas of the “Virgin in the Mantle” (XNUMXth century), a masterpiece from the Carmelites.
In recent years, the town of Puy-en-Velay has undertaken a major renovation of the church on the basis of a project dating from 1862, including the reconstruction of the two towers with their crowning elements, elements which had disappeared.
The stained glass windows have also been restored and some specially created in place of the windows nestled in the heart of the rose window on the western facade.
The primitive church consisted of a porch, a nave with six bays, a five-sided apse. Over the centuries the building, built mainly from volcanic breccia, has been remodeled several times.
The church that we know today is the result of major work carried out between 1862 and 1866, then in 1945 with the construction of side aisles connected to the nave by large broken openings.
The building thus doubled its width and now has three naves.
The facade overlooking the Dolaizon has two three-story octagonal bell towers, framing a central gable pierced with a rose window.
Modern stained glass windows by Watkin (1968) adorn the bays of the apse, the XNUMXth century stained glass windows, and those of the side aisles.
The carved wooden pulpit from the 1620th century and several paintings deserve attention, in particular the “Vision of Saint-François” (XNUMX) by the painter Guy François. You can admire at the Crozatier Museum the painting on canvas of the “Virgin in the Mantle” (XNUMXth century), a masterpiece from the Carmelites.
In recent years, the town of Puy-en-Velay has undertaken a major renovation of the church on the basis of a project dating from 1862, including the reconstruction of the two towers with their crowning elements, elements which had disappeared.
The stained glass windows have also been restored and some specially created in place of the windows nestled in the heart of the rose window on the western facade.
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