Église Saint-Clément

English translation

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History

The cartulary of the Monastier mentions the existence in the 11th and 12th centuries of an old prioral church depending on the archpriest of Sablières and, secondarily, on the church of Notre-Dame de Pradelles. The parish subsisted until 1832, the date when it was attached to Pradelles. Shortly afterwards, the stones of the church were used for the reconstruction of that of Pradelles. Near a road to Compostela, the ruins of the chapel of Saint-Clément are the remains of a small prioral enclosure which appears to date back to the 12th century. Of the church properly speaking, little more than the ground plan is visible, with a semi-circular chevet. Adjoined to the external wall of the church, the ossuary is vaulted with barrel vault masonry. Its pit descends four metres below the vault. Its access is via this vault by a reduced opening with wooden rebate opening. Near the entrance of the church, at the base of the approach path, a broken barrel vault sheltering two stone sarcophagi. A few metres from the chevet, the fountain of Sainte-Reine near which several sarcophagi are discernible. Below the ossuary, a rectangular building was perhaps an old priory-curacy. The whole was ruined during the 20th century by "wild" archaeological excavations, conducted with dynamite.