Église Saint-Cybard

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History

Tamniès was, in the 13th and 14th centuries, a regular priory, non-monastic, of the Order of Saint-Benoît, dependent on the abbey of Sarlat and forming part of the deanery of Saint-André d'Allas. In 1414, during the Hundred Years War, the church was pillaged. In 1592, it suffered the vicissitudes of the Wars of Religion when the baron de Beynac, leading Protestants, took the church. The nave was rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries on older foundations. A large pointed arch occupies the south wall of the nave and opens onto a chapel with openings dated to the 18th century. The nave is followed by a square transept resting on piers by means of chamfered corbels which surround it. The choir is decorated with five arcatures. The south face, by the openings found below the present level of the nave, would seem to indicate that it was lower in the 12th century. The bell tower separates the nave from the chevet. It is a large rectangular mass pierced, in the 18th century, with three large bell-tower openings, and which encloses the square of the transept. A door pierced 3.50 metres from the ground gave access to the defensive stronghold which the bell tower constituted in troubled times. A semi-circular chevet follows the bell tower. Its upper part was rebuilt on a polygonal plan.