Église Saint-Pierre

English translation

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History

The church was built in the 13th century while preserving some parts of an earlier building (15th, 16th and 18th centuries), in particular the door and the base of the bell tower. Addition of the south aisle in the early 14th century. Around 1415 or 1420, the church was destroyed by the Hundred Years' War. The building underwent little modification in its important parts. The masonry is in rubble stone in the nave and bell tower. The plan is of three naves, with a square apse. The choir appears to have been built between the late 15th and mid-16th century. In the middle of the western facade and directly beneath the bell tower opens the main portal, dating from the mid-14th century. It comprises several archivolts with strongly accentuated mouldings terminating some on corbels carved with figures of fantastic animals and others on six engaged colonnettes attached to the jamb and separated by grooves. The south portal, from the 13th century, includes a tympanum with stepped arching enclosed within an ogive. Four slightly engaged colonnettes receive the termination of the archivolts.