Église Notre-Dame-du-Bourg

English translation

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History

The oldest parts date from the 12th century. The edifice, almost entirely in brick, is completed in the 14th century. Of the Romanesque church only eight capitals with decorated abacuses, intercalated in the present main door, remain apparently. The nave, which appears to date from the beginning of the 13th century, presents a vault buttressed by powerful brick buttresses between which were placed, in the 14th century, chapels without external projection. The engaged pillars were cut in height at ground level to widen the vessel and are terminated by corbels. The choir, built all of one piece in the 14th century, possesses contemporary chapels, established, as in the nave, between the buttresses which they do not exceed. Above the chapels is found a gallery of triforium whose external projection is covered by a brick slope and opening onto the church by a series of twinned openings reigning below the tall windows with mullions. In 1860 fragments of painting of the 14th century were discovered representing subjects borrowed from the life of the Virgin.