Chapelle Notre-Dame de Sabart

English translation

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History

Church of trapezoidal plan, rebuilt in the 16th century on the site of a primitive building. To obtain a larger vessel, the old transepts were incorporated into the choir and a pentagonal apse with buttresses was built. The church is slightly straightened on the axis of the Romanesque nave. The buttresses are placed entirely inside the nave, without projection to the outside. The entrance portal with two pointed-arch voussures was imitated from 13th-century portals, but was remade in the 18th century in terracotta. This door was protected by a timber porch which was reduced in the 19th century. The choir is furnished with a large gilded wooden retable from the 17th century, which frames five large canvases of the Toulouse school. The church is entirely wainscoted in walnut. The building was profoundly altered in the 18th century, at the time of works carried out following the Wars of Religion. Just after it had been completed, it was devastated in 1568 then in 1582. It was pillaged and assigned to Protestant worship until 1599.