Jubé

In a church, the jubé is a wood or stone platform and fence separating the liturgical chorus from the Nef. It holds its name of the first words of the Latin formula “ jube, dominates, benedicere ” (“condescends, Seigneur, to bless me”) which employed the reader before the lessons the Crossbred ones.

Structure and uses

Jubé is composed of three elements: the platform (the jubé itself one), the fence (known as “Chancel”) and group it carved crucifixion.

Platform one read the Gospel and one preached (the pulpits succeeded to him in this employment). One installed there also the choruses, from where the name of chantereau under which certain old texts describe it. A portable organ could be there installed before does not spread the fixed organ, which is generally placed at the top of the first span of the nave.

The fence/chancel has as a function to isolate the chorus (reserved with the clerks and the lords prééminenciers) from faithful which, because of its presence see little or at all the high altar. In that, it approaches the iconostase of the Eastern Christian Churches ( cf will infra ).

The Crucifixion surmounts the platform of which it is the principal ornament, turned towards the faithful ones. Large Christ in cross known as “Spanish” that one observes in many churches plated in the walls north or south of the nave were often recovered during disassembling of jubé. The trefs preserved with their crucifixion, after the destruction of jubés, took the name of “beam of glory”.

History

Jubés appeared in France at the 12th preexistent century of the meeting of three elements separately: the tref (beam of glory), the fence and both Ambon S.

At the 16th century, the Concile of Thirty caused an evolution of the catholic Liturgie in answer to the success of the Protestant churches. The chorus having from now on to be visible for the faithful ones, jubés were condemned. Whereas the Pulpits to preach replaced them, they will be moved or destroyed at the following centuries, sometimes tardily at the 19th century. The rule applied in the parish churches and the cathedrals, but of the private vaults could maintain this furniture original, as one especially notes it in Brittany. In spite of their disappearance, there remains in many places the traces of the site of the beams of support of the chancels and jubés, to see access of this one by doors now walled, in the masonry of columns containing a spiral staircase (Locronan/Lokorn - 29). The old orthodoxe churches (Iconostase S) and Anglicans preserved theirs in general.

  • crowned Brittany: Jubés the

  • Historical of Jubé in Occident, " the iconostase occidentale" of before 1054, by the p. Lester Bundy, university of Denver

Jubés in France

It remains in France only very little of jubés, but Brittany preserves a beautiful collection of it.
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