Chaniers - Saint-Pierre

The church was erected on an ancient Gallo-Roman site from the 11th century on. During the Wars of Religions the church got fortified.

All around the high rising apse of Saint-Pierre in Chaniers are nicely carved corbels. Here is one of them (a kind of double portrait). The sandstone used in the Saintongue is very soft, what made it easy for the carvers. Unfortunately - it weathers.