Bueil-en-Touraine

Église Paroissiale Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens et Église Collégiale Saint-Michel-et-Saints-InnocentsIndre-et-Loire (37)

The size of the church of Bueil-en-Touraine is rather surprising for such a small village. In fact, there are two curiously adjacent edifices. The imposing square tower and the two gables belong to the parish church dedicated to Saint-Peter-in-Chains, built between 1480 and 1512. The nave, surmounted by a smal steeple is that of the collegiate church dedicated to St. Michael and St. Innocents erected almost a century earlier.

The 16th-century tower and the two gables of the south side aisle of the parish church A flight of rather steep steps leads to the south door

Let us begin our visit by walking through the door (1) giving access to the rib-vaulted parish church

On your left (2) a16th-century font covered with a very fine carved lid

On the north wall, a fragment of a bas-relief

Small vaulted room (6) of the side aisle (7)

On the east wall, above and on both sides of the door (3) - probably the former west door of the collegiate church to which it now gives access -16th-century wall paintings

Behind the door the visitor discover the aisleless nave of the collegiate church, the chancel and apse

The rib-vaulted nave is adorned with painted keystones

In recesss in the south walls (13-12) are a series of marble monuments among which those of Jeanne de Montajean (above) and Pierre Bueil (below)

General view of the south wall, "probing windows" and circular windows (8-9-10-11)

On the north wall, wall paintings have been concealed by a coating of whitewash or plaster. Recent "probing windows" (10-11) have revealed interesting fragments (10-11)

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