page_title: Autry-Issards
section_title: Religious heritage
hierarchical_section_title: Autry-Issards / Culture and heritage / Religious heritage
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Église romane d'Autry-Issards (Allier), de style bourguignon, terminée au 12e siècle. Classée aux monuments historiques en 1927.
context_page_description: Autry-Issards is a French commune in the Allier department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France.
  The inhabitants of the commune are known as Issardiens or Issardiennes.
context_section_description: The commune has many religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
  The old Benedictine Priory of Saint-Maurice(13th century). The Priory contains three items that are registered as historical objects:
  A Sculpture: Bust of Saint-Auréolé (11th century)
  3 decorative plaques: Adam and Eve seated (11th century)
  2 Statues: Virgin and Child and Saint-Cyriaque (disappeared) (12th century)
  The Church of the Trinity (11th century) The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Romanesque church which dates from the early 12th century which has a magnificent portal and a carved tympanum and bell tower. It is typical of the Middle Ages (a long, low building with repeated use of the tapering lintel) with decorative influences from Cluny Abbey (especially fluted pilasters) combined. The decor of the portal (fluted pilasters and tangled foliage) is strongly reminiscent of some decorative elements of the Abbey at Chezal-Benoît (Cher) which was built in the first half of the 12th century. The steeple topped by its stone spire is one of the highest in the department. The Tympanum has two angels holding a Mandorla which surrounds Christ in glory which is also found in the nearby church of Meillers. This is a very rare instance of the artist signing his work: "Natalis me fecit". They are surrounded by arched ways with hanging lamps.
  The church contains many items that are registered as historical monuments:
  A Bronze Bell (1694)
  A Bronze Bell (1656)
  A Plaque commemorating the foundation of Masses by Jacques de Dreuille and Elisabeth Deculant, his wife (1715)
  A Painting: Deposition of the Cross (16th century)
  Group of 4 Capitals and bases (11th century)
  A Statue: Christ in Majesty (13th century)
  Group of 4 Capitals (12th century)
  Group of 3 Capitals (12th century)
  Group of 6 Capitals (12th century)
  A Lintel: Christ Pantocrator or in Majesty (12th century)
  A Painting: Lamentation on the dead Christ (15th century)
  A Retable built into a niche (17th century)
  A Processional Cross (19th century)
  A Statue: Saint Roche (19th century)
  A Statue: presumed to be Saint Abdon (19th century)
  A Statue: Virgin and Child (18th century)
  A Statue: Virgin and Child (17th century)
  A Stained glass window roundel of Mgr. de Dreux-Brézé (19th century)
  4 decorative and 2 historical Stained glass windows (1869)
  2 historical Stained glass windows (1861)
  3 Stained glass windows of people (1854)
  A Bronze Bell (1836)
  A Bronze Bell (1694)
  The Furniture in the Church of the Trinity (1836)
  7 Capitals, 5 bases, and a cornice (11th century)
  Gallery of Pictures of the Church of the Trinity
caption: The Church of the Trinity
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