Nogent-sur-Oise, Saintes-Maure-et-Brigide
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Building Data for Nogent-sur-Oise, Saintes-Maure-et-Brigide

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  • Type: Parish
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  • Region: Picardie
  • Department: Oise
  • Coords: 49.280, 2.4755
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  • Surveyed: 1977, 1992-98, 2015

Map

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 Nogent-sur-Oise, Saintes-Maure-et-Brigide

1241



Louis IX decides to build after a ceremony.

L’AN 1241: ... LA TRADITION AJOUTE QUE SAINT LOUIS, QUI AVAIT VOULU ETRE PRESENT A LA LEVEE DES CORPS VENERES DES DEUX VIERGES, [SS MAURE ET BRIGIDE] SE SENTIT PENETRE D’UN SI VIF SENTIMENT DE PIETE, QU’IL CONCUT, ET EXECUTA BIENTOT APRES, LE PROJECT DE FAIRE BATIR LE CHOEUR DE L’EGLISE DE NOGENT,...

1241: ...Tradition holds that Saint Louis, who had wanted to be present at the raising of the venerable bones of the two virgins Saint Maure and Saint Brigide, felt penetrated by such a powerful feeling of piety, that he conceived and executed a short time later the project to rebuild the choir of the church of Nogent,...

Source: Delettre, 1842, ii, 296.

Branner, 1965, 66, states this was ‘intended to open a campaign for building funds’.