Capitels : Their style is classically romanesque: over a torus base, a carved echinus topped by chamfered abacus.. Despite their simplicity they display elaborated combinatory from three main elements: human heads, leaves (plain or palms), interlaces (plain, ribbon, dotted ).

           Given the very strong unity of construction, we may assume that, as the contents, the distribution of the combinatory could display a christian symbolism prior to the representation of biblical subjects. About " the first experiences to represent human shapes on interlaces background ", see the site of  Conques.

Heads, entrelaces, leaves

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     Piscina : In spite of his etymology it is not an olympic swimming pool, not even a baptistery in which one can immerse, as in Poitiers the Baptistère St Jean. It looks like a small sized kitchen sink (the conical part is about 20 cm in diameter), where the priest washed the liturgical objects. Water pours off in the inner fondations.

     This practice disappeared numerous centuries ago and piscinae were or transformed, or walled up, or buried by the raising of the floor level. The trefoil arch, more recent, proved the custom to be continued later in Brux than somewhere else.

   Virgin and Child :  XVIIth C, attributed to Van Dyck school. Presented late XVIIIth by Montalembert, lord of Epanvilliers. Now in restoration, it can't be seen.

    The funeral litre : A funeral litre (or "listre", same etymology as "list") is a black strip the lords had the right to paint, decorated with their coat of arms, in the churches in honour of their dead. It runs on the aisles walls. The layer of lime whitewashing was removed and the listre fully restored in 1993-94. A naked Mélusine decorate some of the 12 shields of the Saint-Georges de Vérac family, lords of Couhé and Brux.