Fieffes-Montrelet

Fieffes-Montrelet is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Somme and the area Picardy.

Geography

Fieffes-Montrelet is with the north-north-west of Amiens, halfway between Canaples (in the south) and Fienvillers (in north). The commune consists of 2 distinct villages, Fieffes being more in the south.

History

In 1975, the 2 old communes of Fieffes and Montrelet met to constitute only one and even commune administratively.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Church of Fieffes

Church Saint-Pierre is church Romance, last pilot of commanderie hospital of Order of Malta, classified in 1921, whose state required a deep restoration which was completed on October 14th, 2007, with the blessing of its furnace bridge given in state by the bishop of Amiens, monseigneur Jean-Luc Bouilleret External : Still surrounded of its cemetery, in the west and the south, the church Saint-Pierre is built in extreme cases of the village, just beyond the small river which one crosses by a small bridge. Its Clocher as a bâtière is drawn up against the northern frontage. Its squat aspect is reinforced by the height of its Contrefort S of angles which go up to the roof.

The western gate is protected by a hood. Above, a window is decorated of a plank underlining the warhead.

The southern part is decorated by a plank also, but this one, contrary to the other, is made up of small different reasons in relief all, and she traverses with horizontal all the length of the nave, under the roof.

A door is surmounted by a scuplture, extremely damaged, which had to represent an angel. Just on the right, about with the same height on the pillar, one still distinguishes, but with sorrow, a Sundial, surmounted of another (older it since almost unobtrusive by erosion seems).

Interior : The building profited from a recent development. At the time of the edition 2003 of the contests “an inheritance for tomorrow” (competition having allowed safeguard of more than 220 " richnesses of the inheritance of proximité" , organized by the Pilgrim and France Info ), 7.500 euros were allocated for the restoration of the maître-autel. .

Four sculptures also were preserved and restored: Saint-Pierre (wood of), a Virgin with the Bird (wood of, Saint-Éloi and Saint Nicolas's Day (wood of)

The church is equipped with 2 swimming pools, one being decorated than the other.

The frame of the chorus is decorated on each side of 2 Blochet S, representative of the faces.

Northern side (under the Bell-tower), one notices a piece of wood bored in its center and inserted among the stones of the vault. It is about the passage for the cord of the bell.

The baptismal font is in the south-western angle.

Church of Montrelet

If the building is, like that of Fieffes, still surrounded of the tombs of the cemetery, it is characterized some by its distance from the river and its position in height.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Sum
List of churches with liturgical swimming pool

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