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教会は13世紀に建てられました。16世紀には、教会の北側に礼拝堂が、南側には大きなステンドグラスが追加されました。 教会は1905年9月12日の法令により歴史的建造物として指定されています。

12世紀のロマネスク様式の教会で、15世紀にゴシック様式で再建され、数多くの登録有形文化財を収蔵しています。ステンドグラス、祭壇画、彫像、絵画など、芸術作品がよく展示されており、21世紀初頭に修復されたこの教会で際立っています。オープンで歓迎的なこの建物は、心地よい発見であり、訪問を強くお勧めします。

According to tradition, the church choir covers the remains of an older building, possibly dating back to the 6th century, which was built to house the saint's body. According to current knowledge, the commune of Saint-Piat (Sanctus Piatus in Latin) officially appeared in 1087, mentioned in a charter of the Nottonville Priory (Eure-et-Loir), on which it depended. The current building was rebuilt during the time of Francis I, as suggested by the date 1535 engraved on two buttresses of the apse and the date 1542 engraved on a piece of wood from the vault. This is according to a study by the SAEL (Eure-et-Loir Archaeological Society). The three-sided apses, the dripstone towers (horizontal members projecting from a wall), and the sculpted roof structures are a testament to the importance of the reconstructions carried out in the department during the 16th century. The church of Saint-Piat is one of them. While the church has not been officially recognized, it nevertheless contains objects that have attracted attention both for their antiquity and quality, but not always for good reason. Their artistic value, far from attracting only religious or aesthetic interest, has also aroused a covetousness that, unfortunately, remains for some of them. Fortunately, those still in place are carefully cared for and offer the curious a story to discover, a beauty to slowly ponder as they progress toward the choir.

On the night of April 2-3, 1903, a terrible fire completely destroyed the church of Saint-Sulpice. The spire, the roof, and all the furnishings—pews, pulpit, woodwork, altars—were consumed; only the walls remained standing. This church, 23.80 m long and 6.90 m wide, built in the shape of a perfect parallelogram with a straight chevet, formerly lit by a triple lancet window, was flanked on the right by a groin-vaulted chapel 6.10 m wide and 5.55 m deep, and on the left by the bell tower, beneath which was once a chapel, also groin-vaulted, but transformed into a sacristy a few years ago. This tower, reached by a stone staircase, was topped by an octagonal timber-framed spire, elegantly crafted and the tallest in the entire region. This church has been remodeled several times, most recently during the reconstruction of the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin in 1764. However, this dates back to the 16th century, as evidenced by the flamboyant ogival window with two mullions, only the top of which was visible, the lower part having been walled up to accommodate the altarpiece. The second window, on the south side, is semicircular with a mullion, adorned with stained-glass windows with figures of the Blessed Virgin, Saint Anne, and Saint Joachim framed in small medallions painted by Mr. Lorin in 1895. The nave wall received windows of the same style at the same time, but the enormous buttresses and the freestone stringcourse with dripstone were erected in the 16th century. The rest of the church, the gable of the façade with its Romanesque window flanked by two barely protruding pillars, the gable of the chevet with its triple lancet arch, protected by a semicircular arch of dressed stone, the entire north wall, also supported by slightly protruding buttresses and adorned with semicircular windows, and the bell tower, date from the late 12th century. The exterior entablature of the chevet was formed of carved corbels with foliage and strange, crude figures (alternating human heads and rams' heads), irrefutable evidence of this ancient origin. The church was consecrated after the 16th-century restoration, and a beautiful consecration stone with trefoiled ends can still be seen. The church's benefactor had his coat of arms carved on a projecting shield on the corner buttress of the façade gable, and inside the seigneurial tier. The destruction of the woodwork revealed two double oval shields on either side of the high altar, surmounted by a marquis's crown and supported by two greyhounds. The dexter shield bears a gules chevron, accompanied at the top by two roses of the same color and at the base by a cross of Lorraine; the sinister shield reveals a wild boar at the base and two flames or thunderbolts at the top. Could these be the arms of Mre Loup de Cosne? These same shields are found in the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin in four places and in the sacristy. In the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin, a third shield is also found bearing a standing lion, attached to a shield bearing a wild boar and two flames. In 1623, Loup de Cosne, Lord of Vovelle, had a daughter named Francoyse, baptized in Dammarie; in 1653, Charles de Cosne was lord of Loiville and Mre Mangot, lord of Boncé.

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The Henri Ey Hospital Center is a departmental public health establishment, specialized in psychiatry, which provides a mission of prevention and reception, care, aftercare and reintegration in mental health in Eure-et-Loir. It provides care in adult, child and adolescent psychiatry, as well as a medico-social activity in the field of geriatrics and psychological and mental disabilities.

The Saint-André church burned down in the middle of the 19th century. The priest, forced to celebrate mass in a barn, opened a subscription in 1864, the church was rebuilt in 1865, according to the original plan, plus a transept. Bell tower-porch.

Unfortunately, the church was not accessible when I visited (mid-September 2024). You could only look in through a gate and the dance of death depictions on the left side were not really visible. In front of them were transparencies with skeleton drawings. Maybe those were the depictions...