CHURCH OF ST. LAWRENCE
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Visit a church, with its Romanesque capitals, to admire the polychrome wooden statue, and a classical tabernacle.
This is a very complex building that has suffered, from century to century, the vagaries of history. Its current state is the result of all these more or less brutal changes. Probably built in the 11th century on the site of an older sanctuary, it was rebuilt in the 12th century. The first mention of its cloister, however, only dates from 1219. The "face-lifts" follow one another thereafter: enlargement in the 15th century, fire in 1568 (caused by the Huguenots), collapse of the vaults in 1572 then reconstruction of the vaults, restorations in the 19th century... You will see Romanesque capitals (one of which represents the Weighing of Souls), a polychrome wooden statue of Saint Laurent, an 18th century classical tabernacle, two murals by Grelet (1874), the burial place of the tomb of Jeanne d'Albret (died in 1444, wife of Arthur de Richemont, constable of France and lord of Parthenay) and a 17th century painted wood representing the Assumption.
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