The small church of Soubran probably replaced the old chapel of a very close castle. Castle and chapel disappeared, destroyed, one and the other, at the time of the wars of Religion.
Of the first, very well placed at the top of a high mound, there are hardly any more than vague sections of walls and of the second some carved stones incorporated, with the base and the shaft of an old cross, in the masonry of the current building.
This one is almost entirely modern. The side chapels are from the last century and the Romanesque bell tower dates from 1890. It rises on two floors with semicircular bays, crowned with a stone spire, in front of the nave, its base forming a porch.
The basket-handle capped nave and the chevet have no decoration. The stoup is from the 17th century.
The church of Soubran houses a very beautiful painted canvas (1.90 x 1.30), from the 18th century representing a crucifixion, listed in the Mobilier Historique.
The bell dated 1629 is also listed in the Mobilier Historique.
From 1970, restoration work on the church of Soubran was undertaken in order to repair the numerous degradations due to time, on the one hand, but also to man. Many valuables had been stolen including ....... the altar, yes the altar!!!
The mayor, Bernard Louis-Joseph, then went in search of an altar which he ended up finding in the town of Coulgens in Charente. But during the installation in the church of Soubran, minor cleaning work revealed a small box containing relics
They were accompanied by a short text in Latin that Father Genet, Father Cooperator of the parishes of Mirambeau, Jonzac and Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, former Latin teacher, was happy to translate. "The year of the Lord 1884 on the 24th of November, I, Alexandre, Léopold Sebaux, bishop of Angoulême, consecrated in honor of Saint John the Baptist* an altar in this place of our diocese commonly called Coulgens and I have inserted therein the relics of Saints Amant, Bonosius and Serena, martyrs».
These relics have now returned to their original place in the altar.
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