If you want some precisions concerning the "entombment", the funerary stone of the Bellringers or the shrines, click on the photograph. .
The former Saint-Paul church of Jouarre having burnt during the Hundred Years War, it was necessary to rebuild it. The yard started toward 1440, but was finished only at the beginning of the XVIth century. The general architecture of the building especially reveals a transition style, between Gothic and Renaissance. So the arch of the nave remind the one of the Saint-tienne church of the Mount, in Paris. The Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul church was restored in 1869, what was an opportunity to construct the turrets of angle of the facade. The bell-tower, damaged in 1960, was rebuilt too. It has five bells: Jeanne, Anna, Albertine, Louise, and a former bell from Sept-Sort, village situated next to Jouarre. The church also shelters within a big number of pieces coming from the abbey. So, the numerous shrines that you see in the choir were located at the origin in the abbatial church, they were only transferred here during the Revolution. In the transept north an entombment of the XVIth century comes from the Tower of the abbey. |
...............The Saint-Pierre Saint-Paul Church