Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption

English translation

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History

Gothic church with single nave, comprising six bays with rib vaults, of which the fourth bears the bell tower. The external buttresses of the bell tower and of the western façade, appear to date from the late 15th century. The western façade was remade in the 18th century. Each face of the bell tower is divided into two parts by two corner small columns and a central one, flanked by two narrow openings and two blind arcatures, each with small columns and capitals with foliage. Inside, the capitals of the bell-tower bay are decorated with foliage which could date from the late 13th or early 14th century. In the sixth bay, the ribs rest on corbels with figures. This building, of the 14th and 15th centuries, is said to have been built at the location of a first church founded by Raoul de Lusignan in 1196. During the Wars of Religion, the church was set on fire in 1585.