Coloured glazed tile roof of the Église Saint-Martin in Ambierle, France
Church of Saint Martin in Ambierle in the department of the Loire, is the former chapel of a monastery dedicated to Martin of Tours, founded by the Benedictines in the High Middle Ages and reduced priory in 1101, during his attachment to the order of Cluny. The present building was built in the fifteenth century on the remains of the first chapel, built in the eleventh century by Odilon de Cluny and destroyed by fire in 1441, along with the parish church. She received since the faithful of the parish. The church is characterized by its multicolored glazed tile roof of Burgundian style and a bell tower was added to the crossing in the early nineteenth century. It is home to remarkable fifteenth-century stained glass, bearing the arms of Antoine de Balzac Entragues, Bishop of Valence and Die and prior of Ambierle. She welcomes the altarpiece of the Passion, bequeathed to the priory in 1476 by Michel de Changy, Councillor Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. It comprises in its central part six statues in polychrome walnut contained the Passion of Christ's crucifixion, the kiss of Judas, the floggings, the crowning with thorns, the deposition of cross, burial and resurrection. The shutters protecting the sculptures are decorated with paintings by specialists assigned to the Flemish master Rogier van der Weyden or an anonymous master, the master of Ambierle.
Size: 2848px × 4288px
Location: Ambierle, Loire, France
Photo credit: © Tim Sambrook / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 15th, ambierle, burgundian, century, church, france, glazed, loire, multicoloured, priory, roannes, roof, saint-martin, style, tile, tiled
