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The 14th century church of the Assumption of Fabas presents a composite architecture combining late Gothic and Baroque elements. Its gate, adorned with four archvolts (three in warhead, one in the middle of the hanger), fits into a bell tower-wall in large carved apparatus, typical of the region. This bell tower, divided into three galves and surmounted by a stone cross, houses bays in the middle of the bells, one dating from 1761, melted in the village of Plan and acquired in exchange for a communal wood.

The facade, in a flooded fort, illustrates a late gothic by its columns, capitals and veins framed in a curved rectangle. The wall-cloche, divided horizontally into three registers, carries two arcades for the large bells and two smaller in the upper part, crowned by a central pinion. The lateral reinverters, decorated with balls on bases, recall the Ariegian style. Together, including the square, the hall and the remains of the Foix-Fabas castle (today in an EHPAD), form a site registered since 1943.

Ranked a historic monument in 1950 for its gate and bell tower, the church houses furniture protected by the Palissy base, including a bentier, a wooden statue from the Virgin to the Child and a painting depicting the Tentation of Christ. These elements, as well as the bell of 1761 laid in the nave, testify to its central role in the religious and community life of Fabas, a village located at 419 meters above sea level on the east side of the main square.

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