Colombiers - Saint-Maclou

Colombiers is a small village (pop. 300) in the former marshes of the Seugne river. Life must be hard here in medieval times. Saint-Maclou, the village´s parish church, was erected in the 12th century. It was the church of a priory, dependent from the Benedictian Abbaye Saint-Sauveur in Charroux. The church got altered and modified during the Gothic period (15th.), when it lost its once Romanesque portal.

Single nave churches, like Saint-Maclou, are typical for the villages of the Saintonge. They may not look spectacular on the first sight.
But here in Colombiers are some extraordenary carvings.

I have visited this church on two occassions, but unfortunately even a second visit with some better light, did not result in good photos. Sorry! Some of them photos are realy poor, like this one. What is a pity, as some say, that this capital is the most important here. It depicts the "Weighing of souls".