Église Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte

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History

A charter of donation to the monastery of Lagrasse mentions the allod of "Kanoas" as early as the 10th century. Because of its remoteness from the monastery, this dependency was entrusted to the administration of a provost invested with extended powers: collection of tithes and revenues, leasing of decimal and seigneurial rights in the places attached to the provostry, judicial rights and military duties. In 1432, major repairs were carried out on the nave and choir. The building underwent an almost complete overhaul in 1885, having spared scarcely anything but the apse. What remains of the external and internal decoration of the apse prompts its dating to the end of the 11th or beginning of the 12th century. The base of the modern walls of the nave and sacristy preserves ancient rubble-stone foundations and, notably to the south of the choir, a rounded mass which may have served as the base for a small tower or absidiole. The small three-arcade bell tower wall, built in bricks on the end wall, presents a classic composition with ailerons, which may have been built in the 17th or 18th century, and surmounted by a cockerel in cut sheet metal.