• église Saint-Brice

  • église Saint-Brice
  • église Saint-Brice
  • église Saint-Brice
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Located near the Way of St James, the church, dedicated to Saint Brice and bearing similarities to the church in Aulnay, was built in the 12th century. It has not undergone any major alterations and therefore retains a high degree of uniformity. Only the bell tower appears to have been remodelled at a later date, perhaps during the modern period. The church is oriented, meaning that the chancel faces east. It has no portal on its western façade, which is a triangular gable, and its entrance is situated to the south. Most of its sculptures are concentrated on its three-arched portal: interlacing patterns, winged dragons, birds and human heads decorating the columns and capitals. The first arch (the curve of the vault) is carved with scrollwork and foliage. The second, more richly decorated, features figures being attacked and devoured by monsters, an embracing couple, an angel, an archer, monsters, snakes, birds in combat, and other figures and animals. The third, in addition to the themes of the previous one, is carved in its centre with seven figures in long robes, wearing a chasuble adorned with a cross, each holding a crosier in their right hand. These figures could be the bishops of the Seven Churches of Asia; to the right of them are carved a musician and what could be Adam and Eve on either side of the tree with the serpent. The interior is of simple construction, comprising a single nave, covered by a broken barrel vault supported by columns decorated with foliage capitals, grotesque heads and animals. The apse is vaulted with a broken semi-cylindrical vault. The low, square bell tower is pierced by small windows and topped with a hipped roof. The modillions on the cornice of the south façade are carved with flowers, a barrel, a mask and geometric motifs. The windows on the south façade, featuring small columns, have capitals carved with plant motifs. The exterior apse is decorated with corbels supporting the cornice, which is carved with geometric patterns, flowers, monsters spewing foliage, an animal biting its tail and a human head. It was listed as a Historic Monument on 22 October 1913.


Opening periods

All year round daily.