Restes de l'ancienne collégiale Saint-Georges

English translation

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History

Romanesque collegiate church built within a castral complex, with crypt, around 1070-1080. Gothic collegiate church built in the early 14th century, without crypt. The Romanesque building was destroyed violently, presumably during the reprisals exercised by Philip Augustus in 1218. A new partial destruction by fire occurred during the civil incidents of 1562, resulting in the progressive disappearance of the great nave and the northern aisle. The building (southern aisle) became, in the early 19th century, a school and was then rehabilitated in the early 20th century. From the Romanesque building, only four straight bays of the ambulatory and an absidiole remain to the south. From the Gothic building, which had a rectangular plan with a flat chevet, only the southern vessel remains. The connections between the upper church, the crypt and the Romanesque bell tower no longer exist. Access to the crypt would have been by two staircases located at the ends of the ambulatory.