Sant Pau de Fontclara

The former monastery church of Sant Pau de Font Clara serves as the parish church of the same name, to the municipality ( Municipi ) Palau-sator belonging village in the northeast of Catalonia.

Location

The Church of Sant Pau de Font Clara is located in about 45 inhabitants village of the same name in the municipality ( Municipi ) of Palau-sator in the Girona province in the autonomous region of Catalonia. It lies at an altitude of about 30 meters above sea level. inst. , the nearest large city, Girona, about 37 km ( driving distance ) is located to the west.

History

Documented the existence of the monastery is occupied since the year 889; in the year 908, it is considered to the Benedictine Abbey of Lagrasse ( Roussillon ) duly described. The present church is, however, attributed to the 11th century; it was extended by lateral chapel additions in the 16th and 17th centuries - a cornerstone bears the year 1627th

Architecture

Exterior

The completely built of rubble masonry apse shows approaches of subdivisions in the Lombardic style: Between four pilasters are three narrow windows. The south side of the nave of the church is simple unjointed; the north side is obscured by later additions chapel. About the otherwise unadorned western facade rises a two-piece bell gable ( espadanya ). The portal was redesigned in 1639 in the Renaissance style and is in the middle of a gable blasted a relief plate with the presentation of the church's patron saint Paul of Tarsus.

Affairs

The approximately 5.50 meters wide, 12.50 meters long and about 7.50 meters tall pointed barrel-vaulted nave is today without plaster and shows coarse rubble masonry; it was in 16-17. Century extended by lateral chapel extensions. To the east a slightly retracted and a stair increased vestibule joins, the upper part is plastered and painted with frescoes of the 13th century. These were only discovered in 1940 in the removal of an altarpiece. The restored in 2003 Apsiskalotte shows a Majestas Domini representation surrounded by the four symbols of the Evangelists; below that is a row of the twelve apostles with Peter and Paul in the middle. More - but poorly received Tenene - paintings show the 24 Elders of the Apocalypse, as well as scenes from the life of the apostle.