Saturday, 8 September 2007

The cathedral of St Etienne and the churches of St Eusebe and St Pierre have been protected and developed over the centuries, but there have been more ancient religious sites contained within the pattern of Auxerre centre that have been destroyed or simply neglected and forgotten.

The « documents d’évaluation du patrimoine des villes de France » gives the following list of all the known sites and their location. Apart from only two exceptions, they are all contained within a circle of diameter 2/phi Km (Fig 12).

1-Basilica St Amatre

2-Basilica, then church, then chapel Saint Alban

3-Cathedral St Etienne

4-Oratory Saint Maurice

5-Monastery Saint Come and Saint Damien then monastery Saint Marien (first placement)

6-Church Ste Marie then collegiate church Notre-Dame-de-la-Cité

7-Basilica, then monastery Saint-Pierre-en-vallée

8-Monastery Saint Martin, then parish church Saint-Martin-les-Saint-Marien

9-Basilica Saint Christophe

10-Basilica St Pierre and St Jacques

11-Basilica then abbey Saint Julien

12-Church then parish church Saint Mamert

13-Basilica , then collegiate church Saint Eusebe

14-Basilica Sainte Marie, then monastery Notre Dame-La-d’Hors,then parish church Notre Dame-La-d’Hors.

15-Basilica Saint Gervais

16-Chapel Saint Clément

17-Chapel then church Saint Pèlerin

18-Baptistery Saint Germain

19-Baptistery Saint Jean Baptiste

20-Church Saint Loup

Religious establishments developed in the XIIth and XIIIth centuries

21-Convent Franciscan

22-Convent Dominican

23-Chapel and Templar commandery

24-Parish church then chapel Saint Etienne le petit

25-Synagogue

Of particular interest is the placement of the Templar commandery (23) and a synagogue (25) close to the centre of the pattern.

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