Église de l'Assomption de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie de Taron

English translation

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History

Church built at the end of the 10th or beginning of the 11th century, on the vestiges of a Gallo-Roman villa. In the 12th century, construction of a lateral chapel on the south flank of the chevet. The building was remodelled in the second half of the 15th century. A second chapel was erected around 1500, on the south side, then twenty to thirty years later, the north chapel. The porch was put in place in 1744-1747. The bell tower was remodelled between 1759 and 1762, but retains a Romanesque base. The building, preceded by a vast porch surmounted by a storey, presents a single nave and a polygonal chevet buttressed by chapels. Under the porch, a door from the 18th century, framed by pilasters, gives access to the nave. The Sainte-Catherine chapel houses mosaics from the Roman villa.