SAINT-SAMSON CHURCH
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You don't need a plan to find it, you will see the bell tower of this church built on the top point of the town. The main construction periods range from the beginning of xiiith to the sixteenth century. Its originality is to count six spans north and only three to the south. Burned during the Hundred Years War, it was largely rebuilt after 1495 in flamboyant Gothic. The choir is lit by a splendid vitrail of the sixteenth century. Also admire the ensemble of polychrome wood saints, always from the sixteenth century (with left to right: Saint Barbe, Saint Geneviève, Saint Roch and Saint Catherine) and paintings of the seventeenth century: «Mary terrassing the dragon» and «Adoration of the Mages». You must take the tour of Saint-Samson to admire the bas-reliefs adorning the setback of the portal and the carved tympan. The bell tower, from the end of the xivth century, was beheaded by lightning in 1785. The one we can see today is the nineteenth century.
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