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16th century church / octagonal bell tower
Church rebuilt in the 16th century. Old nave on the east side with remaining buttresses. Renaissance portal. Part of the old nave was propped up to support the weight of the bell tower. More recent nave facing a large stained glass window spread over 5 lancets, made by Lucien-Léopold Lobin of Tours (1861), and which illustrates the Ascension. St Saturnin on the left, St Eloi on the right (protector of horses and metalworkers) Interesting door of the sacristy which, made at the end of the XIXth or beginning of the XXth century, evokes the instruments of the Passion: cross, crown of thorns, sign, 3 nails of the Romanesque tradition, the 2 spears, reed and whip, 40 pieces acquired by Judas. Pieta in a niche of the collateral in painted wood.
Copyrights Christian Pasquet
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