Grézac : Saint-Symphorian Church

The church has two naves. The north nave includes an apse from the 12th century, until the place where there was a transept now disappeared. The north wall and the pillars were restored in the 18th century, while the western wall aligned with the entrance which was redone at the end of the 14th century, thus creating the southern nave. Ancient bases of the 12th century facade can still be seen at the northern corner of it. The southern nave is divided into three parts: first, in the east, a section built in the 13th century comprising two spans; Then, part of two traveled from the 14th century; Finally, the facade span, erected during a second campaign at the end of the 14th century. In the apse of the north nave, dating from the 12th century, there are double -fragrant windows, with decorated columns and arcades, as well as damners and diamond tips, without forgetting capitals decorated with foliage and tangled animals. The twinned windows of the wall is of the high chapel of the crypt have columns that do not go to the bottom of the windows, and these columns are no longer present on the windows of the first phase of extension of the 14th century. The vaults disappeared in the section dating from the 14th century, and the upper parts began to collapse, probably during the wars of religion (around 1562). The western facade has a portal with two doors decorated with random arcs, surrounded by three bunk arcs resting on columns. Above there are two twin bays decorated with the martyrdom of Saint Symphorien, flanked, above the horizontal banner supporting the whole, by the representation of the Sagittarius and its prey. On the northwest buttress, the Fabliau du Renard and La Cigogne is illustrated in two adjacent scenes on the same panel. Similarly, on the southwest buttress, two scenes sculpted on a stone added to the facing could come from the old church of the 12th century.