Église Saint-Pierre

English translation

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History

In 1123, a bull of pope Calixte II designates the commune as a dependency of the Benedictine abbey Saint-Sulpice de Bourges, a possession confirmed in 1163 by pope Alexander III. This church could be one of the two chapels mentioned, the title of parish church appearing only in 1507. The church was, until the Revolution, a dependency of the priory of Dampierre, and no doubt the seat of a chapter. A document of 1546 mentions canons at Concressault. The construction of the edifice may date back to the second half of the 12th century. The lintel of a side door would come from an earlier edifice. The present plan presents a rectangle comprising a Romanesque nave covered with a roof structure of chevrons-bearing-trusses, likely dating back to the end of the 15th century or beginning of the 16th. The choir is contemporary with the nave, and is covered with a barrel vault in stone. The apse, polygonal on the inside, semi-circular on the outside, was remodelled at the end of the 15th century, and its walls raised in 1901. At the beginning of the 16th century, a seigneurial chapel was attached to the south wall of the choir. Soundings have revealed the existence of wall paintings on the walls of the nave, including narrative scenes of the 15th century and a funeral scroll of the 16th-17th centuries.