Église Saint-Julien et Saint-Roch

English translation

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History

In 1100, Guillaume d'Uriel, bishop of Limoges, gave the church to the monastery of Uzerche. In 1115, it was dependent on Tulle. The eastern mass appears to date from the 12th century. The nave is modern. The western façade dates from the 17th century but opens with a portal from the 15th-16th century. The Romanesque part would have been a castle chapel, later transformed into a parish church by the addition of the nave. The building consists of a single nave followed by a bay under a bell tower covered by a dome on pendentives. It ends with a polygonal apse vaulted in a cul-de-four. From the bay under the bell tower extend, north and south, two polygonal absidioles placed obliquely in relation to the axis of the central apse. This plan is unique in Limousin. The dome has a rectangular outline, rounded at the corners, emphasized by a quarter-round moulding. The apse has five sides. The lateral absidioles have three sides. The portal of the west façade presents an archivolt furnished with flamboyant foliage and surmounted by a small fleuronned pinacle. Two pilasters terminated by pinacles with crockets flank the whole. The third level of the façade ends with a pediment from the 17th-18th century, supported by two ailerons drawing a fresco. An octagonal bell turret, topped with a spire, crowns it all.