PATRIMOINE RELIGIEUX

EGLISE SAINT JULIEN (XIe - XVe)

Barrais-Bussolles

The holy water font of the 11th century consists of an octagonal tank and rests on a barrel of the same type.

The choir (late 15th century) is in flamboyant Gothic style.

CHAPELLE DE BUSSOLLES (XIe - XIIe)

Barrais-Bussolles

The flamboyant style choir is well preserved

EGLISE SAINT LAURENT ( XIe - XIIe - XVe)

Bert

The building consists of a choir of the 11th and a nave of the 12th to 3 spans separated by massive pillars decorated with capitals (including 4 historié).

The square bell tower of the 15th century is an old donjon.

EGLISE SAINTE ANNE ou NOTRE DAME (XIIe)

Le Breuil

This restored Romanesque chapel has the tombstone of Alix de Breuil (1300).

This tomb is one of the most beautiful engravings of the Gothic period.

EGLISE ST NICOLAS STE CROIX (XIe - XVe)

Droiturier

Site Clunisien since 2008. On both sides of the entrance door, two historized Romanesque capitals: "the rope monkey" and "the tree of life".

The statuary has been restored to the gold leaf: statue of St Nicholas (seventeenth century) and St Catherine of Alexandria (eighteenth century).

The southern chapel presents a neoclassical decor of trompe-l'oeil paintings.

Church open from 9 am to 4 pm in winter and from 9 am to 6 pm in summer. Free visit with leaflet in five languages ​​on site.

For more information: Mairie: 04 70 55 01 10

ÉGLISE DE ST ETIENNE (XIe)

Saint-Etienne de Vicq

The bell tower of this Romanesque church has the particularity of being circular on a square plan.

The choir presents two capitals carved in the purest Romanesque style.

EGLISE SAINT PIERRE (XIIe)

Saint Pierre Laval

The tombstone of Eustache de Châtelus (late 13th century) is the oldest of the Bourbonnais.

CHAPELLE NOTRE DAME DE BEAULIEU (XIIe)

Saint-Prix

Many miracles would have happened.

A Romanesque niche contains a relic of the cross, statues of the Virgin and Child (15th century), St. Augustine and St. Nicolas.