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Try to Attend A Mass in Gregorian Chant Style
hquittner Says: If you are present in the Porch at the appropriate time (noon daily except Sunday at 11:00AM), there is admission to the service, but not to the rest of the church. Actually admission begins ten minutes earlier and I wandered about during that time and quickly took picturea...
Locate the Contents of the Church
hquittner Says: The only contents of the church are objects that are hard or improper to carry off. So great was the plunder of the Abbot Odet , one of the three Coligny brothers reared by Connetable Anne de Montmorency. (Another of the brothers built Tanlay (See our Tips there). When Odet...
hquittner Says: The nave was the last part of the church built (1150-1218). The entire church is 365 feet long and is very high. The five nave bays have slightly pointed arches and tetrapartite ribbed vaults (as would be expected in early Gothic). The aisles have groined vaults with steps...
Examine the Capital On the Porch and Inside the Ch
hquittner Says: The oldest capital carvings at St. Benoit are worked from the corners of the capital block and the intervening face, making three areas to trea t separately in the earliest times, often vertically divided as such. A great many are simple foliage exhibits. Here, when human...
hquittner Says: On the North side of the church just east of the porch-tower is the North Door.complete with a tympanum built before 1200.. The appearance of jamb statues suggest an affiliation with the Chartres school, but the figures are worn. (The inner one on the right is said to be...
First See and Enter the Church Porch Tower
hquittner Says: The first thing you see and ultimately enter is the porch-tower which was completed before 1050. This means that the carved capitals on the columns may be earlier than those of Moissac or Toulouse. In any event this represents a different school than the Souuthern one and...
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The first thing you see and ultimately enter is the porch-tower which was completed before 1050. This means that the carved capitals on the columns may be...
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We came to St.-Benoit sur Loire (Saint Benedict that is) hoping to hear the monks emoting Gregorian chant and indeed at noon we were rewarded with a service, We did not know that it was also a gem of...
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