SAINT CHARTIER CHURCH
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This church has a pointed barrel vault and a fourteen meter high flamboyant gothic choir
The church has been listed as a historical monument since 1840. Built on a site occupied since the Gallic period, it was part of a priory according to the order of Saint Benoit; it is also mentioned as early as 1081 in a charter of the abbey of Montierneuf in Poitiers. In the 16th century it owed its fame to the fifteen relics it housed, including those of the thorns of Christ's crown, a piece of the Virgin's robe or a finger of St John the Baptist. The exterior is in a sober Romanesque style, but with a facade richly decorated with geometric motifs. Inside, there is a broken barrel vault and a fourteen-metre-high flamboyant Gothic choir. The latter is itself composed of three vessels covered with eight-ribbed vaults. This monument with a rich historical past is perfectly preserved. Its notoriety was such that Rabelais quoted it in his work!
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