Église Saint-Laurent

English translation

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History

Church depending on the former diocese of Saintes, constructed in the 12th century. It served as a fortress during the Wars of Religion. Restored in the 17th and 19th centuries. Rectangular plan with a single nave covered by a barrel vault in hollow bricks constructed in 1911. The transept is covered by a dome on pendentives. The choir and the old apse at the flat chevet were destroyed. Vestiges seem to indicate that there existed to the north a chapel. The western façade is opened by a large portal with four round-arch voussures (interlaced foliage, eight-petalled flowers, stars). The columns have disappeared. Two blind doors accompany the portal. The abaci of the columns extend, forming a tympanum. At the storey level above, a cordon of fluting supports five round-arch arcatures with double columns. The whole is decorated with a band of diamond points. Square bell tower on the transept, of which only the base is old.