Église Saint-Symphorien, ancienne aumônerie et ancienne grange monastique

English translation

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History

The fief and almshouse belonged, from the 11th century, to the abbey of Marmoutier and were subject to the castle of Amboise. The church, built in the 11th century, then consisted of a single nave and choir, then was enlarged in the 15th century by two aisles while the choir was rebuilt. The latter is covered with rib vaults springing from corbels ornamented with angels or foliage. It is accompanied to the south by a seigneurial chapel which serves as a sacristy. The almshouse (12th and 15th century) is a rectangular building which preserves, on the upper floor, two Romanesque windows. The windows of the ground floor were remade in the 15th century. Inside, a cabinet on the first floor preserves traces of pictorial decoration. This almshouse, or leper house, was united to the Hôtel-Dieu of Amboise in 1698. The barn of the almshouse, dated from the 15th century, is divided into three naves by two rows of posts.