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July 23, 2007
Poitiers 860194 86000
Vienne Poitou-Charentes
46.583 0.333 114 m

Church Notre-dame la Grande, collegial and parochial one of XIème XIIème century, place of the Market.

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A collegiate church is a church served and administered by a college of canons or prebendaries, presided over by a dean or provost. In its governing a collegiate church is similar to a cathedral, although a collegiate church is not the seat of a bishop. Collegiate churches were often supported by (sometimes extensive) lands held by the church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiate_church

One is unaware of the exact origin of this religious establishment, mentioned for the first time in 924 in the cartulaire of Redon. The building is rebuilt Romance in second half of XIe century, and is devoted in 1086 by the future pope Urbain II.

Caractèristique of the Romanesque architecture poitevine, the frontage presents three stages:
With the first a central gate in semicircular arch and two side gates in gothic arches are.
With the second two galleries of arcades recoivent statues of saints on both sides of a central bay.
With the third one sees a pediment decorated in his center with a mandorle.
The entirely carved frontage is a chief of famous Romance work of art in the whole world.

At the interior,
fresco of origin remain around the chorus and in a crypt, but the church received in 1851 a painted decoration.

At the interior also, in the Sainte-Anne vault, known as "of Insane", is a setting in tomb carved out of polychrome stone, of XVIe century. Christ is deposited in a sarcophagus by Joseph d'Arimathie and Nicodème, under the glance of the Virgin, supported by saint Jean, and two holy women

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/inventai/itiinv/ntredam/ndg.htm http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_la_Grande

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