Église Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier

English translation

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History

Former collegiate church, the church presents a nave of five bays with semi-circular apse and side aisles terminated by two also semi-circular absidioles. These parts all present the characteristics of the transitional architecture of the 12th century. The side aisles are vaulted in groined vaults. To the south, the old masonry vaults still exist with their hard stone ribs falling on square pilasters. To the north, the vaults were remade in flat bricks. The western entrance doors date from the 13th century. The first bay of the nave, to the north and to the south, preserves beginnings of 13th-century triforium. The apse still has its masonry vault, its arches, capitals, small columns and 13th-century windows. In 1562 and 1567, the building is partially destroyed by the Protestants, and the sculptures mutilated. There remains, at that time, only the apse, the absidioles, the side aisles, a part of the nave and the single 15th-century flying buttress. From the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, are rebuilt the vaults of the nave in brick masonry, as well as the upper parts of the bell tower.