Église Saint-Médard

English translation

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History

The walls of the church date from the 12th century. These are the only remains, along with the façade, of the building from this period which comprised a nave and aisles. The current layout dates from the 15th century. At this time, from the old bases, a nave with six bays was created, vaulted with rib vaults with longitudinal liernes. The widening of the nave led, between each bay, to the construction of an inner mass which forms a buttress and supports the vaults. The spaces between the masses are covered with barrel vaults, the back of these sorts of lateral chapels being formed by the original 12th-century wall. The chevet is pierced by a pointed-arch opening with an archivolt decorated with curled foliage. At the height of the fourth bay, the chapel of the Three Marys or of the Holy Sepulchre was built in 1480. Another chapel with two bays was built in 1510. The lower storey of the western façade dates from the 12th century. At the centre opens a portal with four sculptured voussoirs. The two blind arches that surround this door have two rows of sculptured voussoirs. The buttresses surmounted by pinnacles date from the 15th century. Above the portal is depicted Christ in a glory, surrounded by angels in small arcades. Above, the window and the gallery of trefoil arches that surmounts it date from the 15th century.