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St Laurent Church

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Beautiful 14th-15th-century church and sundials.

The church is a listed historic monument with a lovely Lombard Romanesque style bell tower and a stone porch supported by stone columns that have sculpted capitals (leaves and heads).

The doors are closed by a cast iron lock with a chimera head bolt. Between the vault and the arch, figure wall paintings representing the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary that date back to the 16th century. On the southern wall, the frescoes are based on the theme of the seven cardinal sins and their punishments.

Inside (ask for the keys at the Mairie), there are representations of the divine presence, Isaiah, Christ in Majesty, the Tetramorph and the Coronation of the Virgin.

Two sundials painted in 1750 overlook the village; one on the south face and the other on the west face of the bell tower. They were restored by the Tournesol workshop in 1989. In the same year, this workshop also created a modern sundial on the wall of the old vicarage in commemoration of the bicentenary of the French Revolution.

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Place de l'Eglise
05120 Les Vigneaux
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