Église Saint-Pierre

English translation

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History

The church belonged in the 11th century to the abbey of Baignes and depended on the archpriest of Chalais. It was a conventional priory until the 16th century. Built in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Romanesque building was remodelled in the medieval period, then rebuilt in its upper parts and crowned with a new bell tower at the end of the 19th century. The building is of rectangular plan with a transept terminating in a circular apse. The north transept arm was extended eastward in the 19th century by a sacristy, and westward by a stair tower of medieval date. The gutter walls of the nave have, on the south, Romanesque arcatures carved above a blocked portal. The western portal, of Romanesque workmanship, is surmounted by a 19th-century gable. The chevet, whose external crown was replaced by modern arcading in white limestone from Angoulême, presents internally an apse decorated with fourteen capitals with sculptured decoration.