Cognat-Lyonne - Sainte-Radegonde

The little, romanesque church stands isolated on a little hill, next to the graveyard of Cognat-Lyonne. Upto January 1569, the village was all around the church, but during the Wars of Religions, a battle between Protestants and Catholics took place here and the village got totally destroyed.
When the village got rebuilt later, a place some hundered meters north was chosen, leaving the old parish church alone on the hill.

The damaged monkey on this corbel was probably an eyewitness of that devastating "Bataille de Cognat". Meanwhile the corbel is severely damaged - eyes and forhead of the monkey got lost. But there is still the typically round mouth.