Église Saint-Maurice

English translation

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History

The church of Romanesque period comprising a nave of four bays (first bay built in 1880 by the architect Moreau; the three others date from the 12th century) and two aisles, covered in broken barrel vaults carried on doubleaux. Two apsidioles in cul-de-four terminate the aisles; a flat chevet, rebuilt in the 13th century, replaces the apse. A 13th century bell tower, crowned by a spire covered with shingles, rises above the bay preceding the south apsidiole. The monument was restored in the 19th century: the façade, the first bay of the nave and the north apsidiole were rebuilt. The façade of the wall of the north aisle was partly rebuilt, as well as the openings of the bays of the south aisle. The nave, the choir and the apse on the south side alone retained their ancient character. On the exterior, the modern western wall is pierced by a door in the Romanesque style surmounted by a polylobed rose. The square bell tower has two storeys with twinned arcatures. At the upper storey, a sloping buttress at the angles which originally connected to a stone spire, destroyed in 1619 by a hurricane, and replaced by a conical wooden spire.