ÉGLISE
This Romanesque church was built on two superimposed crypts.
After his death in Ravenna in 448, the body of St. Germain was accompanied to Auxerre by five women, including St. Camille who died before arriving and was buried in this small village. The 12th-century Romanesque church, which has a beautiful narthex, is built on a double crypt, one of which (from the 11th century) housed the relics of the saint. The portal of the facade, under a four-lobed rose, presents a tympanum with the paschal lamb in low relief and two corbels representing an telamon and a griffin. The nave under exposed roof frame preserves six small Romanesque bays. The octagonal brick spire, visible from the Roman road, rises above the fields. A staircase descends from the nave into the crypt, which follows the bedside plan. A second lower crypt dates from the Middle Ages to house the lords of the place's sarcophagi.
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