Chapelle de Condat

English translation

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History

Of the castle razed by the soldiers of Charles VII there subsists only this chapel which must have been located outside the fortress and which served at once for the castle-lords, for the tenant farmers, serfs and villagers of the surrounding area. It appears to have been built, for the oldest parts, in the 11th century. It was restored and enlarged in the second half of the 15th century, probably by Charles de Berry, brother of Louis XI, governor of Guyenne. At the Revolution, the chapel was sold as national property. Repurchased in 1865 by Mme Piola who made a gift of it to the clergy, it was returned to worship in 1868. The building is formed of a single nave divided into four bays which become slightly increasingly longer as they approach the sanctuary, thus appearing to have the same dimension from the entrance. Broken round arch ribs delimit these bays. The rib vaults are completed with liernes and tiercerons at the entrance and at the choir. At the north-west angle is housed a spiral staircase. On the exterior, two buttresses at the angles of the western façade, surmounted by pinnacles adorned with chimeras, date probably from the 19th century, as does the gable ornamented with a rose window and the sacristy flanked against the abside. The building also appears to have been raised. Vault keys, junction points of the ribs, corbels have received an escutcheon, a fleuron or a sculpted figure. The stained glass windows date from the 19th century. The fleurs de lis of the paving of the choir would date back to the 15th century.