NOTRE DAME CHURCH
Church of the XIXth century, built on the site of an old chapel formerly attached to the castle in Chef-Boutonne
This 19th century church was built on the site of a former chapel once attached to the castle. An ancient tombstone, saved from the destruction of this first chapel in 1825, bears the epitaph of "Petrus Constantinus Miles" who died on the Sunday before Pentecost in 1211. The construction of the present church was completed in 1830 by the architect Théophile Segrétin, who was influenced by the neoclassical art of this period in France, hence its appearance of a Greek temple with its ancient columns on the façade and its resemblance to the Parisian church of the Madeleine. This architectural curiosity is surprising in this region where Romanesque religious architecture is omnipresent. In addition to this singularity, the dome and the motives of the bottom of the church due to the painter Gibaud de Poitiers, the altar of the Virgin with the uncommon motive of its relief, a confessional of the 19th century with the door decorated with a typical sheaf of the Mellois style are to be seen.
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