Église Saint-Paul

English translation

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History

The castle and its chapel are mentioned in the Spicillegium Brivatense from 1078. The church presumably comprises Romanesque parts, but the whole has been revaulted and pierced anew in the 15th century. The building presents, in plan, three bays including that of the porch tower, plus the seigneurial chapel to the north. Two rib vaults constitute the bay of the porch tower followed, in the nave, by a sextpartite vault on a square plan. The two other vaults are of four branches. The seigneurial chapel opens into the nave by a pointed arch opening. The ribs of the rib vaults are of simple cavetto and terminate in penetration, following 15th-century tradition. Those of the porch rest on corbels. The decoration is limited to small stalls from the 15th century and paintings on the vault of the seigneurial chapel. These reveal a central motif of a Christ or Virgin surrounded by celestial figures, angels, laypeople and religious. On the walls, figures hold phylacteries in Gothic script. These paintings appear to date from the restoration of the church (15th century).