Chapelle Sainte-Agnès

English translation

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History

Remnants discovered at the foot of the "hautour" suggest that use was made of the ruins of an earlier building, a villa probably. The building terminates to the east in a pentagonal chevet. External analysis allows one to suppose that the chapel was built in the Romanesque period and covered with a small shrine in the 17th century. The nave is covered with a barrel vault. Behind the triumphal arch, the semi-circular apse is vaulted in a cul-de-four. Five decorative arcades, blind and in the round arch style, correspond to the five external faces. The inner rolls rest on sculpted corbels; the outer rolls on decorated pilasters. A "lantern of the dead" was added around the 17th century. This is a square turret, open on each of its faces and crowned with a low cornice.