Notre-Dame of Comps Church

This was the original parish: the administrative center was transferred to Les Ancizes a little over a century ago (March 3, 1885) due to its growing importance, but the communal center was fixed in Comps before the Revolution, around the graceful church dedicated to Notre Dame, which has retained its(…)

This was the original parish: the administrative center was transferred to Les Ancizes a little over a century ago (March 3, 1885) due to its growing importance, but the communal center was fixed in Comps before the Revolution, around the graceful church dedicated to Notre Dame, which has retained its Romanesque features.

Listed as a historic monument in 1961, it has been restored in recent years.
Above the south portal, the cornice is marked by a series of expressive modillions, generally with human or animal heads (donkey heads, for example). The interior of the building is harmonious, with the nave and left side aisle vaulted in broken barrel, and the right side aisle cross-vaulted.

The church furnishings are varied and of high quality, with a remarkable Classical piéta (vigorously repainted), a 16th-century Saint Anthony and a listed Virgin in Majesty, probably dating from the early 13th century. It’s rather crude, made of carved, painted wood, and the position of the child (whose head was redone in the 17th century) is rather awkward.
This Romanesque church shines in its green setting in the village of Comps.