Place de l'Ancienne Comedie, Semur-en-Auxois - Collégiale Notre-Dame de Semur-en-Auxois

A look around Semur-en-Auxois.

Semur-en-Auxois is a commune of the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. The engineer Edmé Régnier L'Aîné (1751–1825) and the Encyclopédiste Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard (1720–1785) were born in Semur-en-Auxois.

Semur-en-Auxois has a medieval core, built on a pink granite bluff more than half-encircled by the River Armançon. The river formerly provided motive power for tanneries and mills, but its flow is now somewhat reduced by the Lac de Pont, a dam built upstream in the 19th century to provide water for the Canal de Bourgogne.

Place de l'Ancienne Comedie

Collégiale Notre-Dame de Semur-en-Auxois in the centre. Nouvel Hair on the left and La Poste to the right.

Collégiale Notre-Dame de Semur-en-Auxois

Dating back to the 11th century , rebuilt in the 13th century and the 14th century , the Church of Our Lady of Semur-en-Auxois in the department of Côte-d'Or and the region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is a style building Gothic , reflecting the importance of the city during the Middle Ages and the evolution of religious art Bourguignon to the xiv th and 15th centuries, eras of its latest changes.

According to tradition, the Duke of Burgundy Robert 1 st has decided to build a new church in the eastern part of the town in expiation of the murder of his stepfather Dalmace of Semur-en-Brionnais.

Depending on the Benedictine Abbey of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain , the priory original made up from the 13th century to the present church was built from the year 1212 .

Significant donations, notably from the guilds, lead to the addition of side chapels, on the northern side, the xv th century .

Became Collegiate in 1739 , the church was restored in the 19th century by Viollet-le-Duc .

The façade, which faces Notre-Dame Square, has two square towers, while the transept is topped by an octagonal bell tower.

Preceded by a wide porch with three gates of the 15th century , the nave, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, surprises with its narrowness and its elevation.

It has eight spans, the choir, of the Benedictine type , comprising three.

The apse ends with three radiant chapels.

On the north aisle succeed since the transept chapel butchers, chapel Drapers (15th century), St. Barbara Chapel (16th century), the holy chapel Lazarus which is deposited a Entombment polychrome the end of the 15th century which has been attributed to Antoine Le Moiturier .

The door Bleds , in the north, has a carved tympanum of the 13th century , relating the incredulity of St. Thomas and the evangelization of India. The old hinges from the door were restored in 1846 by the blacksmith art Pierre Boulanger who also built the iron fence forged gate of the Notre Dame.

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Taken on: June 7, 2017

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