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The castle
stands high above the village; the keep and
ramparts date from the twelfth century while
the chapel and outbuildings are sixteenth
and seventeenth-century.
Next to the village church stands a
magnificent sixteenth-century covered market
hall supported by stone pillars. The
sixteenth and seventeenth-century village
houses are delightful.
Two sign-posted circuits indicate lovely
walks.
A Romanesque
Church, dedicated to St Christopher, and
situated in the middle of the graveyard
about a kilometre from the village, was the
parish church until 1847 when a new church
was built within the confines of the village
itself. The small Romanesque church has a
short, timber roof-framed nave and a flat
chevet with twelfth-century vaulting and a
tower.
In 1980,
magnificent medieval paintings were
discovered in the church’s interior. The
heads of three people dating from the
twelfth century can be seen on the south
wall of the nave. On the north wall is a
representation of Léonard de Noblat, patron
saint of pregnant women, prisoners and the
mad. This mural was painted at some point
during the thirteenth century. The chevet
was decorated during the late Middle Ages
with a representation of Christ surrounded
by four paintings depicting Saint
Christopher, the Annunciation, the Last
Supper and scenes from the furnaces of hell.
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