Église Saint-Pierre de Mâcon, Catholic church in Mâcon, France.
Église Saint-Pierre de Mâcon is the largest church in the city, 75 metres long, 30 metres wide and 18 metres high at the keystone. Its light grey and cream stone facade has two octagonal towers with pointed stone spires flanking a rose window and a row of small arches on columns. The south elevation has three raised round-arched portals whose tympana show the Last Judgement, the Assumption and the martyrdom of Saint Peter.
The city of Mâcon decided to build a new church in this district and entrusted the work to architect André Berthier, a pupil of Viollet-le-Duc. The church was consecrated in 1865, though the end of construction was hampered by financial difficulties. On 24 August 1860, during Napoleon III's visit to Mâcon, the parish priest Jean-Claude Naulin obtained from the emperor an order to study how to hasten completion of the works, which then required 200,000 francs.
This is the third church dedicated to Saint Peter in Mâcon: the first stood near the old cathedral, and the second belonged to the Cordeliers, the Franciscans, who shared it until the present church was consecrated in 1865. The parish, part of the Saint-Étienne parish, keeps the name of the apostle whose life is carved on the pulpit and whose crucifixion appears on a tympanum.
The church stands on Place Saint-Pierre, facing the town hall, with the main entrance reached by a flight of steps in front of the facade. The two stone spires rise 53.5 m, and the left tower carries a clock. The building is inscribed as a Monument historique, including the front steps and side facades.
The chevet is a replica of the chevet of Cluny Abbey, the great Benedictine monastery whose remains lie about 15 km northwest of Mâcon. The church also holds four bells in the belfry with abat-sons, tuned D3, D-sharp3, F3 and low G3, though no further records about them survive.
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