Église Saint-Pierre

English translation

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History

This church was a priory-cure at the nomination of the abbot of Valence or of Saint-Ruf-en-Dauphiné. Built in the 11th then 12th century, on a building of Merovingian period, the church is surrounded by external embankment over an old Merovingian cemetery. Built in the form of a Latin cross, this building comprises a nave of four bays (12th and 15th century), a transept (11th century) flanked by two small apses and a choir (11th-13th century) ending in the form of an apse with cul-de-four. The western façade, rebuilt in the 14th century, opens by a moulded portal, flanked on the right by a trilobed niche and surmounted by a similar window. On the north side, the nave is pierced by a Merovingian door. Inside the nave, the upper part of the 12th-century columns was rebuilt in the 15th to receive the springing of the branches of ogives of an unfinished vault. A plaster ceiling replaces it. Over the crossing of the transept was an ovoid dome on squinches, surmounted by a Romanesque bell tower and a modern spire. A fire in 1943 destroyed the spire and dome.