Ancienne église st-Pierre le vieil

About

The former church of Saint-Pierre-le-Vieil was located in the northern part of the old town of Reims (now department of the Marne) in France. It was a parish church that was destroyed in 1793.

The church was located on Rue des Telliers and its cemetery on the north of Place Drouet-d'Erlon.

The first mention of a parish dates back to the eighth century with a brotherhood under the name of St-Hubert and the first stones of the church in the twelfth century. Work of the 15th elongated the church of two Gothic spans and remodeled the facade. In the 18th century a new gate on the street with the St-Pierre dial, street that bears this name because it is the street that allowed to see the clock dial located in the tower of the bell tower. There was also a cloister of twenty-four columns. The entrances to the church were therefore, rue des Teeirs, rue des Chapelins and ipasse st-Pierre.

After the French Revolution, the church, as a national good, was sold to a brewer at Épernay and the cemetery at Nicolas Noël, which made it a garden and a medical course in the St-Martin chapel.