This site Persia was once a priory with its chapel. This was supplemented in part the eleventh and twelfth centuries after the lord of Calmont in has donated to the abbey of Conques in 1060. These are the Conques monks who restored the left side of the building against the priory demolished in 1664. the portal with its monumental archivolt (the sets of the door frame) and its tympanum, show the influence of Conques.
The tympanum illustrates the theme of Pentecost (the Virgin Mary received the Holy Spirit as a dove and tongues of fire are heading to the apostles).
The monolith lintel represents the weighing of souls and the last judgment.
Forty corbels under the cornice, crown the whole architecture. The best view on the bedside and its belfry is on the edge of the creek.
Inside, the triumphal arch, decorated with carved capitals, opens with a chorus ended with an apse with 5 sides, covered with a cul de four vault.
Jewel of Romanesque art, the church of Persia was listed building in 1862.
