Église de l'Assomption-de-la-Vierge

English translation

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History

The building, disparate, opens with a Romanesque portal in white marble, attached to the south facade at a recent period. The original nave was wider than the present one and covered with exposed roof structure. The walls, built in rubble stone, had been rendered in lime and painted with linear decoration drawn in red ochre. Later, probably in the 12th century, the gable walls were reinforced by round-arched arcatures in dressed stone applied against the interior face and the whole was vaulted in slightly broken barrel vault. Later the lateral chapels were created by piercing the old gable wall at the level of the arches. A hemicycle crypt forms the base of the apse. A masonry bench leans against the circular part of the crypt. This crypt is vaulted with a half-dome whose summit was once destroyed to lower the floor of the sanctuary above it. The jointing, with single line scored with iron, used to dress a face at the location of the destroyed vault, is that in use in Roussillon architecture of the 11th and 12th centuries. The masonry of the older part of the chevet is jointed with two parallel lines. We may therefore suppose that the abandonment of the crypt is contemporary with the vaulting of the nave. The building can be dated to the second half of the 11th century.