Église Notre-Dame

English translation

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History

Romanesque and Gothic church. The façade retains traces of a pointed arch portal. The classical portal, dated 1788, is surmounted by a rose window. The semicircular apse is flanked by four groups of two columns forming buttresses. They are surmounted by capitals decorated with foliage. The cornice was raised and fortified. The square Romanesque bell tower is flanked by flat buttresses between which exists a Romanesque window framed by columns. Each of the faces of the first storey is ornamented with three blind pointed arcatures. Between each arcature, a large column terminates, at the height of the top of the arcatures, with a small tablet cut in the form of a splayed slope. The exterior of the bell tower, of pentagonal form, is furnished with twelve columns grouped two by two on each of the angles. The interior comprises a nave of three bays, a fairly projecting transept and a choir terminating in a hemicircular apse. Two of the bays of the nave are covered with Angevin vaults with eight ribs; the third comprises a rib vault. The bay beneath the bell tower is surmounted by a dome on pendentives. It rests on four Romanesque pillars formed of a bundle of three engaged columns, surmounted by foliage capitals and a small column supporting the pendentives. The apse is vaulted with a cul-de-four and is lit by three windows framed by columns surmounted by capitals ornamented with foliage and supported by four engaged columns.