Église Saint-Jacques de Conzac

English translation

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History

Church built in the 12th century in a region through which pilgrims to Compostela travelled. The town of Conzac was ruined during the Hundred Years' War, in the 15th century. The church may have been ruined at that time. It was restored in the 17th century but the town did not recover. The building is of cruciform plan, with a single nave, and terminates in a semi-circular apse. The nave was rebuilt in the 17th century. It is covered by a wooden ceiling. The crossing had a dome on pendentives. The sculpture of the capitals is significant: riders, figures, animals, ornaments. The apse is decorated with two storeys of arcading. All the capitals are sculpted (griffins, birds, interlace). The apse is covered with a half-barrel vault. The north transept arm, covered in woodwork, retains its absidiole vaulted with a half-barrel vault. The south transept arm was destroyed. The bell tower, which rises above the transept, was truncated and retains only one storey with four arcatures on pilasters on each face. A spiral staircase begins between the north absidiole and the apse.