Église Saint-Pierre

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History

Saint-Satur, in the diocese of Bourges, was a very ancient church, restored in 1034, enriched and endowed with a chapter of canons by Mathilde, lady of Sancerre, daughter of the lord of Saint-Satur, Gimon de Château-Gordon (castrum at the origin of the town of Saint-Satur). In 1107, Pope Innocent II established regular canons of the order of Saint-Augustine in place of secular canons. The church consecrated in 1104 and the abbey were ruined in 1361 by English bands. The reconstruction of the church, begun in the second half of the 14th century, was never completed. Scarcely had the choir been finished when in 1420 the English pillaged the abbey. Raised in part from its ruins, it lived as best it could until the beginning of the 16th century. The effects of commends and the wars of religion finished destroying the constructions raised on the ruins left by the English. A reconstruction of the regular buildings and a reform of the canonical way of life were attempted, but, after a flourishing period in the first half of the 18th century, the abbey struggled with continual difficulties. The community was suppressed in 1775. Within the enclosure of the former abbey divided into two contiguous courtyards, that of the conventional endowment, to the east, near the collegiate church, and, to the west, that of the abbatial endowment (called Château-Gordon), there remain the church, the first building in the Cher classified among historic monuments, the regular buildings composed of the great building of the religious, the building adjoining to the south (former kitchens), and the wing in northwest return, the building on the street of the conventional farmyard, to the south of the former cloister, built in 1768-1769, and in which the great entrance gate of the abbey was then opened, in the courtyard of the abbatial endowment, a building called in the 18th century press-house or Château-Gordon, whose upper storey was formerly meant to house the hospice for guests; this building which can be dated to the second half of the 13th century, is today the oldest building of the abbey. Belonging to the abbatial endowment since the institution of commends, the building of the religious forms a separation between the two courtyards.