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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 829418" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p><strong>The Benedictine priory church of Notre-Dame de Veyrines (2023)</strong></p><p></p><p>Nested very far away from the touristic thoroughfares, in a hamlet of half a dozen houses in the middle of nowhere in the mountainous part (660 meters of altitude) of the Ardèche region (southeastern France), the former Benedictine priory church of Veyrines, dedicated to Saint Mary, is one of those historical and architectural jewels that I so love to discover.</p><p></p><p>In the Middle Ages, paradoxically, the isolation of the locale was less: mule tracks coming from the towns of Tournon and Annonay down in the plains, and going to Le Puy and the Massif Central mountains, snaked through here. Veyrines was the perfect stopover between the Rhône Valley and the Velay mountains, and benefited from quite some human and merchandise traffic. A subsidiary of the abbey of Saint-Chaffre, the priory of Veyrines was protected by the Pagan family of local lords (yes, that was indeed their family name!), whose ancestor Aymon originally (i.e., during the late 1000s) donated a first church and the land around it to Saint-Chaffre to build a priory. The priory apparently went through the Hundred Years War unscathed, but suffered during the Wars of Religion and the nave had to be at least partly rebuilt in the 17th century, obviously (from what I have seen) using a lot of the remaining Mediæval stones that must have been scattered and left lying around. Robert Saint-Jean, in his Zodiaque book <em>Vivarais et Gévaudan romans,</em> hesitates to say whether those walls were actually rebuilt or not, and to which extent, as the stonework really looks identical to the Romanesque one. Modern scientific methods of dating would have to be used on the mortar to know for sure.</p><p></p><p>Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]415649[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 829418, member: 53455"] [B]The Benedictine priory church of Notre-Dame de Veyrines (2023)[/B] Nested very far away from the touristic thoroughfares, in a hamlet of half a dozen houses in the middle of nowhere in the mountainous part (660 meters of altitude) of the Ardèche region (southeastern France), the former Benedictine priory church of Veyrines, dedicated to Saint Mary, is one of those historical and architectural jewels that I so love to discover. In the Middle Ages, paradoxically, the isolation of the locale was less: mule tracks coming from the towns of Tournon and Annonay down in the plains, and going to Le Puy and the Massif Central mountains, snaked through here. Veyrines was the perfect stopover between the Rhône Valley and the Velay mountains, and benefited from quite some human and merchandise traffic. A subsidiary of the abbey of Saint-Chaffre, the priory of Veyrines was protected by the Pagan family of local lords (yes, that was indeed their family name!), whose ancestor Aymon originally (i.e., during the late 1000s) donated a first church and the land around it to Saint-Chaffre to build a priory. The priory apparently went through the Hundred Years War unscathed, but suffered during the Wars of Religion and the nave had to be at least partly rebuilt in the 17th century, obviously (from what I have seen) using a lot of the remaining Mediæval stones that must have been scattered and left lying around. Robert Saint-Jean, in his Zodiaque book [I]Vivarais et Gévaudan romans,[/I] hesitates to say whether those walls were actually rebuilt or not, and to which extent, as the stonework really looks identical to the Romanesque one. Modern scientific methods of dating would have to be used on the mortar to know for sure. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light. [ATTACH type="full" alt="52812708753_5c2a19601e_o.jpg"]415649[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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