Église Saint-Nicolas

English translation

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History

Around 1059, the place is given to the abbey of Saint-Denis which founded there the priory of the chapel Sainte-Aude, and which, as the seat of a justiciary seigneury upon which depended surrounding parishes, enjoyed throughout the Middle Ages great prosperity before being ruined, first by being placed in commenda in the 16th century, then by the suppression in 1686 of the prioral mense whose revenues were allocated to Saint-Cyr. The edifice of the 12th century is composed of a nave with three bays, flanked by aisles, of a projecting transept on each arm of which opens an apsidiole in hemicycle preceded by a choir. Between the abside and each apsidiole is found a sacristy terminated in a circular segment, formerly communicating with the choir and now with the transept by doors pierced in the 17th century. Western facade of the 17th century. The south wall is pierced by a door of the 17th century whose tympanum is decorated with a cross between the sun and the moon, and a round arch window surmounted by a billet moulding. The third bay of this wall preserves the vestiges of a door of the 12th century. Inside, a slightly broken diaphragm arch separates the nave from the transept crossing covered with a dome on squinches. The capitals of the crossing are decorated with interlace and palmettes with little pronounced relief. At the western entrance, presence of a Romanesque holy water stoup, circular, resting on an octagonal base.