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Centre-Val de Loire

Châteaudun

Varize

Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Church

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Centre-Val de Loire

Châteaudun

Varize

Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Church

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Location: Varize, Châteaudun, Centre-Val de Loire, France

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1. Église Saint Martin – Saint-Sulpice Church loop from Cercottes

72.8km

02:47

170m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Saint-André Church – Saint-Sulpice Church loop from Cercottes

107km

04:12

370m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.

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3. Église Saint Pierre – Église Sainte Christine loop from La Grosse Pierre

79.9km

03:11

320m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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AeroGrail By Chris 🇨🇵 🏔

February 17, 2025

Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Church is a Romanesque building that underwent some modifications following the partial destruction of the village during the war of 1870. The oriented nave ends with a semi-circular apse and adjoins, to the north, a side aisle. Access is located in the southwest part of the nave, protected by a long canopy. A sacristy was built outside the work and communicates directly, to the south, with the apse. The aisle opens onto the nave by two large arcades. At the entrance to the choir, stand two columns with primitive capitals intended to receive an arch that was probably never built. The nave and the choir are covered with a paneled vault. Two pointed arch bays light the nave to the south. The windows of the apse and the aisle are semicircular. The west gable also includes a semicircular bay. On this side of the church, the arch of the old portal, now walled up, is still visible. An oculus has been pierced in its upper part. The roof is made of slate, as is the bell tower, erected on the western part of the roof. Inside, the decor is especially remarkable for the wall paintings from the 12th and 13th centuries that were discovered in 1939, behind the altarpiece of the sanctuary, by Father Moriceau, the parish priest. Some of them are illegible, others have been perfectly identified. These are the scenes depicting the Descent from the Cross, the Holy Women at the Tomb, the Baptism of Christ, and the Meal at Herod's. Like those in the church of Lutz-en-Dunois and the chapel of Yron in Cloyes, these wall paintings are characteristic of the artistic creation of the upper Loir Valley in the Romanesque period. For the restoration of the plaster and the renovation of the south facade of the church and the porch, the Sauvegarde de l’Art français granted a subsidy of 35,000 F in 1998.

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Location: Varize, Châteaudun, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Church

1. Église Saint Martin – Saint-Sulpice Church loop from Cercottes

2. Saint-André Church – Saint-Sulpice Church loop from Cercottes

3. Église Saint Pierre – Église Sainte Christine loop from La Grosse Pierre

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