6 - Saint Nazaire Church
Succeeding to a Merovingian chapel, known as Saint-Léger, the current church is dedicated to Saint Nazaire and Saint Celsus (whose statues adorn the porch).
It was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and subsequently modified. The oldest parts are the base of the bell tower (crossing of the transept) and the nave, followed by the chancel; the porch and the upper section were added in the 19th century.
The church underwent numerous renovations, both interior and exterior, between 1987 and 2013.
The 13th-century nave is in the Burgundian Romanesque style. The first two pillars, on the chancel side, belonged to the original chapel and were reused during the enlargement. Their capitals feature acanthus leaves and knotted volutes. The transept probably corresponds to the original chapel.
As in the nave, medieval tombstones are scattered across the paving; one of them covers a burial vault to the south of the transept. The chancel, later in construction and with a flat apse, foreshadows the Gothic style.
Inside, there are several remarkable objects, listed as part of the town's heritage: a stone tabernacle, a polychrome Virgin and Child, a Holy Trinity, two cast-iron holy water fonts, a 15th-century funerary inscription, two gilded wooden altarpieces, and 17th-century processional objects.
The bell tower houses three bells of different sizes (1682, 1738 and 1818), now electrified.
