Church of St. Aubin in Trier

The interior of the church, bare, has kept its primitive appearance. The walls of the single nave are decorated with large arcades with broken hangers resting on columns. At the crossing of the transept, a beautiful vault on trumpet begins a square tower surmounted by a pavilion roof. The base of the bell tower, facing the entrance, on the right, is decorated with a large semicircular arch in the Poitevin style, thus mitigating the austerity of the wall. Note a porphyry baptistery decorated with four projecting masks, including one with a human figure with a beard cut in a square in the Roman style. Near the crossing is the old tabernacle, white stone lantern of flamboyant style of the late fifteenth century. At the end of the right transept, under an arcade is the tomb with epitaph and lying of Robert le Mazcon, Lord of Trier and Chancellor of King Charles VII, who died on January 2, 1443.

Outside, the façade, very simple, is decorated with three arches between two corner buttresses. Under the central arcade, the semicircular door is decorated with small saw teeth. The walls have large pointed arches that seem to have been opened in the thirteenth century to perhaps give access to large side galleries destroyed today. We can still see the trace of the small windows of the eleventh century, those that we see date from the nineteenth century. The bell tower is sober and massive, crowned with a spire of tufteenth century tufa stone confined by four lanterns.

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