Église Saint-Loup

English translation

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History

The building consists of a nave with aisles, terminated by a sanctuary with a square chevet. In front of the nave, on the west face, is a square tower whose ground floor, forming a porch, was open on the three sides cleared by arcades. This tower has openings only at the belfry level, twin half-bays on each face. The nave, the aisles, the choir and the porch under the tower are covered by rib vaults on ribs. Numerous works were carried out from 1858 to 1879: construction of the first two bays of aisles on each side of the nave; removal of the walls separating this addition from the last two bays, which, in the original plan, constituted the transepts; reconstruction in light materials of the vaults of all this part of the building, from the west tower to the limit of the old transept crossing. Of the old building only the choir and the transept crossing remain, dating from the first half of the 13th century. The south transept is from the end of the 15th century. The north transept appears to have been built in the 17th century, imitating the style of the south transept. The tower is from the end of the 13th century, except for the upper part completed or rebuilt in the 16th century. The window of the choir chevet is modern. On each side of this opening is a stone niche with canopy and stone aedicule, dating from the beginning of the Renaissance.