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Originally, it
was an 11th century church that was modified.
The interest of this church is its
bell-tower wall and its gate.
The bell tower has four identical superb
bell bays, with semicircular arches, open
gables, aligned at the same horizontal level.
They are highlighted by a bevelled
horizontal panel that runs the length of the
façade, at the height of the crowning
ornament at the top of two very slender
buttresses, which rise in one go, framing
the portal. The top of the bell tower is
crowned with a stone cross in a circle.
The gate, made of four curves, is in the
Romanesque tradition. Each curve is made of
a pointed arch in the shape of a torus (a
large convex moulding) with a projection
heightened by a light rod, and is separated
from the next one by a broad concave
moulding with a quarter-circle profile, with
one side thicker than the other.
The arches sit on small capitals, supported
by small, thin columns.
On the first arch, one can see three human
heads.
On the portal’s capitals, one can see laurel
leaves and circles ornamented with motifs
that evoke flowers with stylized petals, and
sun wheels with four spokes. |
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