Bourg-Madame : Saint-Romain de Caldegas Church

The church was mentioned in the 10th century, but its current structure dates from the 11th century. It is a novel building with a single nave, in the shape of a Latin cross, with a hemicycle apse. The whole is covered with vaults in a semicircular cradle. Inside, the clay walls and the pilasters are significantly tilted, while outside, they are perfectly straight, which seems to have been intentionally done. Flat niches, transformed into chapels, were dug around 1720 within the side walls of the nave. Outside, the apse and the clay walls are decorated with blind arcatures. The portal, located on the southern side facade, is protected by a wooden porch. The bell tower overcomes the western gable and has three arcades, but only the lower two shelters bells. While the church is entirely built in small, poorly fitted granite rubble, most of the bell tower is made of well -cut stones, which probably indicates that the bell tower was built on a later date compared to the rest of the church. Around 1936, the coverage in Lauzes, which was placed directly on the vaults, was raised by raising the Goutterots walls and building a farm frame. In 1950, fragments of wall paintings in detremp were discovered under the rear -parts, these works probably dating from the 13th century.