CHURCH OF CLION-SUR-MER
This building is probably the only church in the Pays de Retz where you can admire a real carillon mechanism dating from 1857
It is probably the only church in the Pays de Retz where you can admire a real carillon with a mechanism dating from 1857. The bells can ring the full octave, allowing the Hail Mary to be played and the Divine Child was born. Its high square tower, massive, and its eastern wall, attached to the tower, make it possible to estimate that the construction of the church of Clion would date from the 13th or 14th century. This tower is a bell tower-porch, i.e. a bell tower with the bell chamber on the top level, porch at ground level, access to the church. It would probably have served as a lookout tower towards the Haute-Perche River. It is the only 17th century church in the Pays de Retz from the time of the Catholic Counter-Reformation, which encouraged the use of Mannerist or Baroque interior decoration. After the Revolution, the church fell into ruin. A first restoration took place around 1825. From 1837 onwards, a complete renovation was carried out. The most important work began in 1857, when the famous carillon was acquired.
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