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Prefecture, Poitiers, France 2010
Interior St. Pierre cathedral Poitiers
The Dove and Jesus
The Raised Altar and ChoirEnter the Baptistry of St.-Jean (2)
Today the structure is a Museum of Merovingian Art (sort of). The interior demonstrates the surviving general structural plan in spite of the modifications. The entire structure is approached downward because the ground level has risen markedly, as is characteristic of all old municipal locations The once filled-in Baptismal Pool is again visible. At the entry the narthex empties into the baptistry via a three arched wall. At the east end, the now rounded projection is an altar area installed in the 10C when the baptistry became a parish church and the area served as the nave after the pool was filled in. The lateral rounded projections were chapels. Fresco decorations were added all over in the 12-14C as this technic spread across Europe.
