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Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe
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How it came to be
The abbey of Saint-Savin, on the Gartempe in western France, was founded or refounded under Charlemagne and his successors. The present church is a Romanesque building begun in the mid-11th century.
At the end of the 11th century or early in the 12th, its interior was covered with murals painted in a single campaign, the largest such Romanesque scheme, and it has been called the Romanesque Sistine Chapel. The Apocalypse fills the vault of the porch tower, scenes from the Hebrew Bible run along the nave, the Passion covers the upper porch, and the crypt tells the story of Saints Savin and Cyprian.
The monastery buildings were rebuilt in the 17th century after the wars of religion. The Gothic spire of the 14th century, almost 80 metres tall, was rebuilt in the 19th. The church has been a listed historic monument since 1840 and was inscribed in 1983.
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