Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre et Saint-Félix

English translation

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History

The church is mentioned from 1010 onwards. The abbey of Arles-sur-Tech possessed certain rights there. The nave, the oldest part, built in the 11th century, was completed by the present apse at the end of the 12th century. From this second campaign also date the south apse and the portal. The north chapel would date from the 14th century, having then replaced the missing north arm of the transept. A sacristy, to the south of the nave, preserves some vestiges perhaps indicating an origin of the 14th century. The single nave is extended by a choir or transept, skewed, and by a semi-circular sanctuary whose axis is oblique and offset to the south, with inclination to the north. To the south of the transept, a small apse, semi-circular on the interior, is rectangular on the exterior. To the north and facing it, a rectangular chapel is covered with a transverse barrel vault. At the far end of the nave is arranged a tribune beneath which a niche houses the baptismal font. The portal opens at the south of the nave. Its only decoration is an archivolt with saw-tooth pattern, relatively rare in these regions where this ornament is commonly treated as symmetrical profiles. The western wall bears a flat bell tower, with two large aligned openings, beneath a smaller opening. The apse is externally decorated with a series of arcatures resting alternately on small corbels and on colonnettes, both ornamented with sculptures (heads of animals or monsters, schematized foliage).