Eglise Santa Creu (ou Sainte-Croix)

English translation

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History

The first mention of the place Santa Creu de Quercob appears in 832. Holy Cross was the church of the parish of Fontanille now disappeared. At the end of the 16th century, the church came directly under the authority of Saint-Etienne d'Arles. It is an oriented building, with a single nave, flat chevet and embryonic transept materialized by the presence of two arch formeret. On the south side, a chapel was grafted at this level. Like most pre-Romanesque churches, the chevet has a slightly trapezoidal plan but the gutter walls converge here towards the west and not towards the east. The nave is covered with a barrel vault round arch. The choir is raised three steps above the nave. It is covered with a very low depressed barrel vault and formerly lit to the east by an opening characteristic of the pre-Romanesque period with a monolithic lintel notched in half-moon. The entrance door, to the south, is a round arch, built in blocks of dressed sandstone and without decoration, work of the 17th or 18th century. On the eastern gable wall of the choir bay rises a bell tower with two arcades. Shaken in the 15th century by an earthquake, it had been concealed and laden, in the 18th century, with a single-arcade bell turret. Work in 1986 gave it its current appearance.