Les églises romanes à l'Ouest de Bazas

These Romanesque churches in the Community of Communes of the Bazadais were all attached to the diocese of Bazas. Most of them were built in the 12th century, sometimes with earlier construction campaigns, as evidenced by certain portions of the walls made of small rubble stones, associated with narrow elongated bays with monolithic skirting boards. The apses are often semi-circular, the one of Nizan presenting a remarkable decoration of interior arcatures. The capitals are not without originality. Because of the disasters of the time (Hundred Years War, Wars of Religion), all these churches have suffered a lot. With the repopulation of the Bazadais in the 14th century, we witnessed the enlargement of the churches, the restoration of the facades and the erection of new bell towers of a particular type: most often under a porch, the gothic door is framed by large buttresses. L