Eglise Saint Etienne

The old church: already replacing a church dating back to the 10th century, the Archives Départementales still hold two sketch plans of this 12th-century church (restored in the late 14th or early 15th century by Guillaume de Lestranges, bishop of Tours), which enable us to size it, orientate it and position it in the present-day village. It was a small church with a slate roof and a wall-belfry with two bells. A baptistery has been preserved and is used in the present-day church. A keystone bearing the arms of the de Lestranges family is preserved in the Musée du Cloître, where it has just been restored. A copper reliquary in the shape of a heart was reported (in 1830) by J.B. Champval de Vyers before the church collapsed (March 1887). It does not appear to have been seen since.

The new church (inaugurated in August 1890) is a neo-medieval construction.

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