Eglise Sainte-Eutrope du Cormenier

It is dedicated to Saint-Eutrope, the first bishop of Saintes martyred in the 4th century.
In the first half of the XIIth century, its bell-tower does not exist anymore or was never realized, being reduced today to an unfinished building. Victim of the Wars of Religion, two thirds of the church was destroyed, then repaired in 1744. A total repair of the nave is undertaken in 1877 thanks to the priest, the abbot Léon Brisson and to the generosity of some families. The bays under the bell tower and the apse, remarkable specimens of the saintongeais romanesque style, were classified in 1909 as Historic Monuments.