The Saint-Étienne Church (french: Église Saint-Étienne d'Entrammes) is a church in
Entrammes
Entrammes () is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. It is located about west of Parné-sur-Roc and about south of Laval Entrammes Airport in Laval.
History
Entrammes owes its location to a major ford across the river ...
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Mayenne
Mayenne () is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-et ...
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France
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History
The first church was built in the
7th century
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on the remains of
Roman baths
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, which were rediscovered in 1987.
Today, little remains of the old paleochristian church save for a
stair
Stairs are a structure designed to bridge a large vertical direction, vertical distance between lower and higher levels by dividing it into smaller vertical distances. This is achieved as a diagonal series of horizontal platforms called steps w ...
case that leads to the
chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
Ove ...
, and also the base of the
pulpit
A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin ''pulpitum'' (platform or staging). The traditional pulpit is raised well above the surrounding floor for audibility and visibility, access ...
.
Gallery
Image:Entrammes - Eglise St Etienne.jpg, The church in Spring
Image:Chiesa-entrammes.JPG, The church in Winter
See also
References
External links
Entrammes (St Étienne)
7th-century churches in France
Churches in Mayenne
Roman Catholic churches in France
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