Église Saint-Oradour

English translation

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History

In 1288, Lupersat became the seat of the archpriesthood of Combrailles. In 1414, a vicarage was founded in the church by Pierre de Monteil. By its primitive parts, the edifice goes back to the end of the 11th century. Perhaps it was, originally, a monastic building (a Benedictine religious community existed near the town in 1250). In 1511, the church is struck by lightning and burned. Modifications in the 17th century. The edifice of cruciform plan comprises a nave of four bays with aisles, a transept whose crossing is vaulted with ribs and the arms vaulted with barrel vaults, a flat chevet. Originally covered with roof structure, the whole was vaulted in the 14th and 17th centuries. The square bell tower surmounts the crossing of the transept. An 18th-century bulbous spire crowns it. The raised door of the western façade opens between two columns topped with sculpted capitals on which the toric archivolts of the round-arch arch are supported. In the nave, capitals with figures, interlacing and foliage.