Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste

English translation

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History

Former castle chapel of the 13th century, which became a parish church, modified in the 15th century. It is a sanctuary with a single nave and apse with cut-off angles whose construction may date back to the 13th century, modified in the 15th by the enlargement of the axial window of the apse, and above all by the introduction of rib vaults of very fine profiles. It possesses decoration of vegetative motifs, consecration crosses, funeral ridges with or without arms and false ashlar on the vault. The vault keys bear figured elements: figures of women in the apse, and coats of arms. The technique of these various elements seems to extend from the 13th to the 17th century. Four levels of superimposed wall paintings. The lower level comprises an ochre-red tone on the 15th century vaults, false ochre-red and brown ashlar surrounding the two openings of the choir and in the splays, eight consecration crosses inscribed in squares, a large tree in bistre on the south wall. The second level presents a funeral ridge running around the chapel and bearing heraldry; the third, a fragment of a funeral monument at the base of the south wall (late 16th century); the fourth, large acanthus leaves in red and yellow bordered in black.