Attractions and Places To See around Sévry - Top 9

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The Sainte-Madeleine church in Jalognes is a Catholic religious building located in the Cher department, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It was built in the 12th century, but was completely rebuilt and enlarged by the architect Charles Guillard in 1864, incorporating part of the 12th century nave. The church is built of limestone rubble and consists of a barrel-vaulted apse chapel, closed by a cul-de-four vault, a barrel-vaulted nave and aisles, with doubleaux for the central nave, and a choir surrounded by an ambulatory. Arcades, supported by columns with capitals sculpted with foliage, separate the three naves. The interior of the church is also remarkable. You can admire decorative elements such as sculptures, paintings and stained glass windows. The choir is decorated with a gilded wooden altarpiece, which represents the life of Saint Madeleine. The Sainte-Madeleine church is a place of worship, but it is also a very interesting place to visit for history and architecture lovers. It is open to the public every day of the week, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. If you are passing through the region, do not hesitate to come and discover it!

The modest Saint-Fiacre church in Lugny-Champagne does not offer any remarkable architectural features and therefore does not benefit from any legal protection. Its plan is of elementary simplicity: a rectangular nave opening onto a slightly narrower choir with a rounded chevet. The whole is covered with a wooden ceiling forming a pointed barrel vault and concealing a modern cement vault (around 1890). The profiles of all the openings (western portal, windows, triumphal arch) are pointed arches; frail engaged colonnettes topped with small hooked capitals receive the legs of the roof trusses. This curious, and apparently ancient, arrangement is completed by an interior cornice which thus connects and crowns all these false bays. All these details taken together place the construction in the late 13th century. Among the furnishings of this small church, we notice an 18th century altarpiece, a 17th century foundation plaque, a 16th century stone holy water font base. and above all a very rare cast iron holy water font, bearing a cast inscription that dates it from 1494 and attributes it to the master blacksmith of the nearby mill of La Motte-Cochon, a precious testimony to an early metallurgical activity in the region. The framework has been reworked and reinforced several times over the ages. It constitutes the weak point of the building; during the summer of 1996, the ridge beam once again bent, producing disorders at the top of the walls. An emergency intervention aimed to consolidate the framework. The Sauvegarde de l’Art Français contributed 35,000 F in 1997.

Don't hesitate to take a short detour to admire this 13th century medieval castle which has preserved its military architecture, notably its wooden weighbridge and its moat. It was included in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments in 2019 and can be visited all year round. Sleeping there is also possible because the owners offer two guest rooms.

Stop at the mill, the traditional oil mill, very warm welcome and you can have a drink in the fridge

Dating from the 12th century, the castle of Pesselières is of Medieval type and includes a remarkable park. Indeed, the French-style garden consists of a 300-meter-long three-hundred-year-old boxwood alley, a channel fed by two sources. A hundred trees of remarkable species were planted in 2009, and the park received the Remarkable Garden label in 2013. The castle can be visited for € 8. More information: https://www.chateau-pesselieres.com/ and http://www.pesselieres.com/

The Templar Commandery of Bordes, the first traces of which date from 1170, is classified as a French heritage. From 1312, it was devolved to the order of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem. The chapel, still visible today, dates from the end of the 13th century.