The modest Saint-Fiacre church in Lugny-Champagne does not offer any remarkable architectural features and therefore does not benefit from any legal protection. Its plan is of elementary simplicity: a rectangular nave opening onto a slightly narrower choir with a rounded chevet. The whole is covered with a wooden ceiling forming a pointed barrel vault and concealing a modern cement vault (around 1890). The profiles of all the openings (western portal, windows, triumphal arch) are pointed arches; frail engaged colonnettes topped with small hooked capitals receive the legs of the roof trusses. This curious, and apparently ancient, arrangement is completed by an interior cornice which thus connects and crowns all these false bays. All these details taken together place the construction in the late 13th century. Among the furnishings of this small church, we notice an 18th century altarpiece, a 17th century foundation plaque, a 16th century stone holy water font base. and above all a very rare cast iron holy water font, bearing a cast inscription that dates it from 1494 and attributes it to the master blacksmith of the nearby mill of La Motte-Cochon, a precious testimony to an early metallurgical activity in the region.

The framework has been reworked and reinforced several times over the ages. It constitutes the weak point of the building; during the summer of 1996, the ridge beam once again bent, producing disorders at the top of the walls. An emergency intervention aimed to consolidate the framework. The Sauvegarde de l’Art Français contributed 35,000 F in 1997.

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Location: Lugny-Champagne, Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France

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