Vault Our-Lady-of-Pity (Lugny)

The vault Our-Lady-of-Pity is located on the territory of the commune of Lugny. Built with the variation on a small hillock, this building with flat bedside - city since 1119 as a church depending on the abbey Philibert Saint of Tournus in a bubble of the pope Calixte II - dominates the houses and the vines of Fissy, in harmony with the site and the frame of this hamlet.

Although partially rebuilt in 1823, this vault kept the plan, part of the walls and the spirit of primitive Romance volume.

The entry of the vault is characterized by a profiled Roman arch whose bases, finely worked and typical of the end of the Gothic, indicate that the unit was probably carved at the end of XVe century. At the base of the wall of the bedside appear several stones punts posed tilted on the section. Used before the year millet, this apparatus - known as “Opus spicatum” or “in fish-bones” - attests seniority of the building. It acts there, perhaps, of the vestiges of a Carolingian wall…

Capped tiles glazed with cross of tiles gilded on black-purple bottom, the bell-tower, entirely rebuilt and which one reaches by an external staircase, contains a bell on which figure an inscription indicating that it was molten in 1871 by “elder Burdin, founder with Lyon”, Jacques Brun (1814-1880) and Joseph-Adolphe Meunier (death in 1876) being respectively cleaned and mayor of Lugny.

Inside, the keystone separating the nave from the chorus - on which the date 1823 and the Latin inscription” meaning ““Sit nomen domini benedictum were engraved Either blesses the name of the Lord” - points out the repair whose building was the object with the beginning of the year 1820. In the chorus, one notices in particular a small niche of typically Gothic stone with his beautiful arc in accodance which appears to be carved at the end of XVe century.

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