Église paroissiale Saint-Leubais

English translation

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History

Building of the early 12th century, presenting a simple nave originally covered with a ceiling structure in barrel vault, on which opens a narrower choir with vault in cloister form, bearing on a cantilever the stone tower, followed by a short bay vaulted in barrel form, terminated by an apse in half-dome. The interior of the nave has been greatly altered. Windows were pierced in the 19th century, at the same time as a plaster vault on engaged columns was established. The exterior is preserved in its primitive state, with no other modifications than the addition of buttresses to the nave in the 14th or 15th century. The bell tower presents a square tower carried on the triumphal arch for the west face, and on a cantilever on the vault of the choir for the other faces. This tower is pierced with round-arch openings with two concentric archivolts, and terminated by a moulded cornice with corbels in the form of human heads, which is surmounted by an octagonal spire with dormers at the angles characteristic of Romanesque buildings of this region.