Étampes, Saint-Martin
ETMPES-M

Building Data for Étampes, Saint-Martin

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  • Type: Collegiate
  • Affiliation: Benedictine
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  • Region: Ile-de-France
  • Department: Essonne
  • Coords: 48.426, 2.1394
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  • Surveyed: 1969, 1972-74, 1980-83, 1992-98, 2003, 2015

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Studies These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.
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These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.

Documents for Étampes, Saint-Martin

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Construction of palace.

INFRA MUROS IGITUR ABBACIE AULAM NOBILEM CUM QUISBUSDAM APPENDICIIS MAGNO SUMPTU EDIFICAVIT,...

Inside the walls of this abbey a splendid palace with certain additions was built at great expense, near old Étampes,...

Source: Henriet, 1978, 313.

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Addition of western bay of nave.

AD DISPOSITIONEM VERO ABBATIS MAURIGNIACENSIS ET DECANI STAMPENSIS HABETIT CAPICERIUS ALTARE COMPETENS INTRA AMBITUM MAGNI CHORI ECCLESIAE, UBI CELEBRAVIT, DONEC NAVIS ECCLESIAE DE VOLTA EXCREVERIT ET SINGULA LATERA DE UNA ET EX TUNC HABEBIT ALTARE SUUM EXTRA CRUCIFIXUM IN LOCO COMPETENTI.

For the use of the abbot of Morigny and the deacons of Etampes the sacristan will have suitable altars in the ambulatory of the great choir of the church, while in the single bay which grew up in the nave of the church where he celebrated henceforth he will have above his altar a crucifix in a suitable place.

Source: Henriet, 1978, 314. Also Dom Fleureau, 1683, 524.

A rule between Abbé de Norigny and the doyen of Etampes concerning the addition of one western bay to the nave, the bishop visited the church and passed through the NEW western bays. Full quote Henriet 1978 314. Dom Fleureau, Les antiquitéz de la ville d’Estampes, 1683, 475-82