Vendredi 18 mai 2012
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A remarkable collection of medieval churches

Dournazac's Church Dournazac church has preserved its 12th century choir and has been recently restored.

The very simple, but elegant, Romanesque choir of Saint-Nicolas-Courbefy (Bussière-Galant) is also to be admired.

Most of these churches were altered, or even completely rebuilt, after the ravages of the Hundred Years War; such was the case with Bussière-Galant, with its odd strange bell-tower which could have been used as a dwelling; with Lavignac; with Lageyrat; with Pageas with its chestnut shingle bell-tower; and, above all, with Flavignac which was rebuilt and extended in several stages between the mid-15th and the early 16th centuries.


Some smaller churches are a reminder of former parishes, such as Courbefy (Bussière-Galant), Texon (Flavignac), in the middle of the picturesque village, and even Chenevière (Pageas), which was founded by the Knights Hospitaller.

Relic cross

Some of these churches have preserved interesting and sometimes very rare furniture and fixtures :

  • Since 1682, the church of Les Cars has housed one of the most beautiful Limousin gold crosses of the 13th century, which probably came from the former Grandmontine priory in Saumur.
  • The bell-tower of Flavignac church contains real treasure, such as several reliquaries from the 13th-15th centuries, as well as a collection of statuettes and liturgical objects from the 17th-20th centuries, which show the furniture and fittings of rural churches (open every day 10.00am - 5.00pm, at least).

But there are also beautiful 17th - 18th century altarpieces in the churches at Lavignac, Flavignac or Texon and paintings in Les Cars and Flavignac, etc.

 
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