EGLISE SAINT-SAUVEUR-DE-CHIRAC

"The former chapel of the Saint-Sauveur monastery, which has become a parish church, is a building with Romanesque and Gothic architecture, with interventions from the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century after the destruction due to the Wars of Religion. consists of a nave with side aisles, a transept and a three-sided apse. The western part with the nave and the aisles remains from the 12th century. The eastern part had to be rebuilt at the end of the 16th century The slightly broken barrel vault of the nave was probably rebuilt at the end of the 16th century. sides is a vaulted gallery which was to continue to the square tower adjoining the apse.These galleries, linked together by an interior passage, were added or transformed for defense, as indicated by the presence of loopholes [ ...]". Information from the Mérimée database

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