Église paroissiale Saint-Ouen

English translation

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History

The church is composed of a Romanesque nave covered with a roof space with a vault supported by visible tie-beams and collars and mouldings of the 15th or 16th century. On the south wall, two semi-cylindrical buttresses, in fairly coarse masonry, can date from the end of the 11th century. To the west opens a round-arch door of the same period whose voussure decorated with toric mouldings, falls back on engaged small columns with fairly crude capitals. The chevet, which was to be flat originally, was pierced in the 19th century by a round-arch opening onto a circular absidiole of the same period. On the north flank was added, around the mid-19th century, a side chapel opening onto the nave by four arcades. On the exterior, gable of Gothic style with flamboyant window. At the north-west angle rises a bell tower against which is leant a timber porch.