The church at Gargilesse-Dampierre has some 120 sculptures on its capitals, plus some other interior features of interest. The building itself is clearly 12th century or so, with some of the arches apparently re-worked into a Gothic pointy look. Sculpture and tombs in urban churches were largely defaced or destroyed in the Wars of Religion and Revolution. In these rural churches, however, much remains intact.
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| East end |
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West; apparently never completed; or, a subsequent reno was
never completed |
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| Interior, all limestone |
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| Not everything on view... |
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Up close of the pantokrator in mandorla, over the
altar; something one doesn't see in Gothic churches
(very Byzantine) |
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And now, just the merest sampling of the many capitals |
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Among which are kings, prophets, other Biblical
scenes |
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And the usual Romanesque weird things, maybe even a Green
Man? |
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| Flight? |
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The figure at the left...Mary, noticing she's pregnant with the
Messiah? |
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| The only burial monument in the church |
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Guillaume de Naillac, knight and seigneur of Gargilesse, took part
in the Crusades, died 7 November, 1266 (my French is improving) |
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