Noailhac - Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens

"Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens" ("Saint Peter in Chains") is the parish church of Noailhac. The erection of the church started in the 12th century and was probably completed soon after.

The church got partly destroyed during the Hundred Years War, so the nave was rebuilt later in a simple Gothic style, that again suffered damage during the French Revolution.

Large parts of choir of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens is still Romanesque - and there are some extraordinary capitals.

After having found Japanese sumotori on a medieval capital in this small church (see previous upload) I had contemplated about seers, visionaries and wormholes. The same gifted mason created this capital, depicting two dogs. It obviously refers to a Joni Mitchell song from the 1980s or the US-Band "Dog Eat Dog", or..