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Nice outing

This is a wayside cross located on the Route des Menots, at the southern exit of Fouquebrune,

Romanesque church fortified in the 14th century during the Hundred Years' War. The bell tower is imposing, and the oldest parts are located at the base of the side walls, the semicircular apse, and the façade. The rectangular bell tower is pierced by two lintel openings on each side. Powerful buttresses surround the building; one of the two on the façade is higher because it supports the bell tower staircase. The three-bay nave is lit by narrow, ribbed-vaulted windows. https://chateauruine.fr/16-eglise-fortifiee-fouquebrune.html

The building, constructed in the 12th century, was enlarged in the 15th century by the north and south aisles dedicated to the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist. It was restored in 1875-1876. It has a basilica plan with a single nave, on which is grafted to the east a false square surmounted by a dome on pendentives and which ends in a vaulted apse. Side chapels with flat chevet were added, to the north and south, in the 15th century. The facade is pierced by a door with a triple projection and an open window. The building was fortified at the time of the Hundred Years' War. The whole is surmounted, to the east, at the level of the dome, by a square bell tower on two levels. The base is decorated with three blind arcades; The upper floor is decorated, on each side, with three semicircular arches mounted on small columns, highlighted by a circular stringcourse and enclosing twin bay windows. https://www.dignac.fr/histoire-et-patrimoine/ https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00104355/dignac-eglise-saint-cybard

The Tower is difficult to visualize; you must stay in the castle, which offers guest rooms, to access it.

The parish church of Saint-Saturnin was built in the 12th century. Its nave was re-vaulted in bricks in 1856, then in 2005. The bell tower, victim of lightning, was reassembled in 1874 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00104270/chadurie-eglise-saint-saturnin https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadurie

Magnificent little Charentais village, with a small church and its garden

awesome dairy descent