Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens

English translation

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History

The church was founded in the 7th century by the abbey of Ferrières, at the same time as a priory which it served. At the end of the 11th century, the gift made by the pope to the lord of the place of relics of saint Peter, led to the construction of a new building. This reconstruction was done by reusing materials from the previous church. Around 1120, the building is completed. From this period remain the foundation, the first and second levels of the bell tower. After the Hundred Years' War and until the beginning of the 16th century, the nave is rebuilt with a flamboyant western portal. Conceived initially to be vaulted, the nave is finally covered only with a simple coffered roof structure, with exposed principal rafters and tie beams. The aisles are unfinished. A third campaign of works is carried out in 1765. On the occasion of the installation of the marble retable, the flat Romanesque chevet is replaced by a blind gable wall. The Romanesque arcades of the lateral chapels, the triumphal arch and the openings of the nave are enlarged. A porch is built to the west, mutilating the flamboyant portal. In 1862, brick and plaster vaults are launched over the remaining stone rib courses left in abeyance. The aisles originally timber-framed receive the same type of vaulting which rests on the side of the gutter walls on moulded corbels (foliage and figures) and, on the side of the nave, on corbels sculpted from the beginning of the 16th century (capital sins). In 1884, the demolition of the porch was decided.