Église Sainte-Madeleine

English translation

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History

The church is composed of a vaulted nave whose last bay, covered with a spherical cupola, supports the bell tower and precedes a rectangular choir. An aisle to the north doubles the nave. The west wall of the bell tower houses the bells in two arcades and supports the roof with timber framing in openwork, raised on the three other faces. Erected either in the late 11th century or more likely in the course of the 12th century, but later altered, there remain from the Romanesque period: the bay of the bell tower and its cupola on pendentives; the south wall of the nave, that of the aisle, both partially rebuilt in the 19th century; the choir, except for the opening of the chevet. To the late 15th century or early 16th century must be attributed: the last bay of the aisle covered with a vault with liernes and tiercerons; the openings of the choir; the west façade of the portal adorned with two sculpted figures (pilgrim; Saint Magdalene); the upper part of the bell tower. Around 1893, openings were enlarged in the nave and aisle, and others were pierced. Light vaults replaced a wooden ceiling. A separation of the northeast angle of the aisle necessitated, in 1912, the construction of a buttress.