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Church Saint-Julien

Monument in Saulcet

Church Saint-Julien - Monument in Saulcet
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This church is dedicated to St -Julien that one can see stained glass inside. It is Romanesque.

It was built by a cardinal cardinal because weapons are painted on the interior walls.

It is classified as a historical monument. The church is topped by a bell tower consists of a square tower, just massive octagonal supporting a perforated floor and dominated by a stone spire and a rooster. The arrow is 30 meters and weighs 60 tons. It's the 14th century. The arrow is one of the first built in Bourbonnais.

Successive restorations have added on the front porch of a wooden 17th century. Formerly, the porch was called caquetoire as people gather to talk about it.

Very interesting tempera paintings decorated the inside of the church. They were discovered during repairs in 1927. They are spread throughout the building. The most important frescoes : The Mystery of the Annunciation on the left side of the road, the Mystery of the Nativity to the left of the altar, triumphant Virgin Mary in the ass oven vault, Christ in Majesty at the vault of the western span, and the Legend of the Hanged depended on the north wall. These paintings were restored in 1869.

Other monuments nearby

Church Saint-GeorgesBransat (2.7 km)
Church Sainte-CroixSaint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule (2.9 km)
Castle of Chareil-CintratChareil-Cintrat (7.2 km)
Church Saint-MartinLaféline (7.7 km)
Church Saint-MarcelBayet (8.7 km)
Church Saint-LaurentChâtel-de-Neuvre (9.4 km)
Castle of BompréBarberier (10.1 km)
Church of BarberierBarberier (12.2 km)

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