Ancienne église Saint-Pierre

English translation

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History

The earliest mention of the church dates to 1181. The village had been fortified for a long time. The primitive building does not appear to have left vestiges, and the current construction is placed between 1113 and 1181 and was fortified in the 14th century. In 1282, the church may have been the seat of a priory. In the 19th century, a new parish church was built in the lower part of the village. The old church became a chapel of the White Penitents. The sanctuary is built on a fortified passage, barrel-vaulted, whose round-arch arcs are of the same type as the vault and the transverse arches of the nave. There can be no doubt that these constructions are not of the same period, probably from the end of the 12th century. The church was erected at the same time as the fortified gate which it surmounts, in the course of the 12th century. The sanctuary is polygonal with three bays. It communicates with two apsidioles by pointed arches opened wide. On the south face of the apse, a large pointed-arch window was opened in the 15th century. Numerous traces of fresco render, visible in the apsidioles and in the sanctuary, as well as at the far end of the nave. To the north of the last bay, a litre is interrupted by an escutcheon. The frescoes do not appear to predate the 17th century.