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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 829413" data-attributes="member: 53455">A remarkable church in Burgundy (2016)This is the church of Saint Peter and saint Paul in the village of Moutier. As the name’s etymology suggests, there was a monastery here, and an ancient one, as it seems to have been founded in the 700s. The oldest parts of the church are from before Year 1000, but remodelings took place until the 1400s.The front part, which some call a narthex and others a caquetoire (a very funny name meaning literally “cackling place”, a sheltered anteroom where people could chatter and prattle about village things before entering the church proper, or after Mass), is from the 1200s and architecturally unique.Between the monastery of the 700s and the erection of the caquetoire, the place had first become (as early as 868) a priory of the Saint Germain Abbey in Auxerre; then, the current church was built as a parish church, next to the institution’s buildings. It is mentioned as early as 990. During restoration works in 1982, splendid late 1100s alfresco paintings (see below) were discovered, which rank among the finest ones in all of Burgundy.Nikon D810, Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm, ƒ/2.8 lens, manual focus. Handheld, natural light.[ATTACH=full]415645[/ATTACH]Nikon D810, Nikkor 85mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens. Handheld, natural light.[ATTACH=full]415644[/ATTACH]</blockquote>