Église Saint-Maxime-de-Confolens

English translation

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History

A first church was built around 990 and handed over to the abbey of Charroux. In the 12th century, it passed to the abbey of Lesterps which united a priory to it and had the building rebuilt in the 13th century. In 1499, it belonged to the diocese of Limoges. It consists of a single nave with, to the south, a collateral aisle of five bays separated by columns receiving the ribs of the doubleaux of two vaults and the arcades that intersect them. The same applies to the half-columns set against the gutter walls. Between 1854 and 1867, a bell tower was raised on the south aisle, to the west. Above the first storey, it becomes octagonal and terminates in an octagonal spire with crockets on its edges. Windows with tracery and filling light the building. The door of the late 14th century, with broken arch, presents four voussures ornamented with bowtell mouldings and bands. It had colonnettes now knocked down whose capitals remaining in place are ornamented with crockets. A secondary door of the 15th century exists in the second north bay, flanked by small pilasters with ogee, pinnacles, fleurons and deployed crockets. On the north side, there is a sacristy rib-vaulted and presents externally a broken opening. On the north side, there is a sacristy rib-vaulted and presenting externally a broken opening.