Ancien hôpital des Pèlerins

English translation

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History

Construction of the hospital in the second half of the 12th century by Geoffroy, lord of Pons, to help abandoned children and the poor and to lodge pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. From this period dates the vaulted porch which spans the road to Santiago de Compostela. It shelters two Romanesque portals; one opens onto the pilgrims' hall, enlarged in the 17th century by a building and continued beyond by a main dwelling of the second half of the 18th century; the other opens onto the old church of which the north and south walls of Romanesque date remain and to which is added to the north a crypt (old charnel house) and at the north-east end, a medieval main dwelling containing a fireplace and remains of wall paintings with geometric decoration. From the 14th century onwards, progressive decline of the hospital. In the last third of the 18th century, new momentum was given to the hospital by Charles de Lorraine, lord of Pons: construction of a new main dwelling, renovation of the sick ward. After the Revolution, the hospital was abandoned and closed definitively in 1818.