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Origin and history

The church Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Blaudeix, located in the Creuse department in New Aquitaine, was built in the 4th quarter of the 13th century when the Templars founded the parish. This small rectangular building, with a single nave and a flat bedside, has a vault on a dogive cross with liernes and thirdons, characteristic of the late Gothic. The arrow, added later, is one of the few visible modifications.

Originally linked to a Templar Commandory, the church passed under the control of the Hospitallers of the Order of St John of Jerusalem after the dissolution of the Order of the Temple in 1312. The archives of the Templar trial mention two key figures: Guillaume Chamborent, last Templar Commander of Blaudeix (1304–1307), and Pierre de Remeys, parish priest in 1304. These documents attest to the local importance of the commandery, integrated with the great priory and the language of Auvergne.

Ranked a historical monument in 1934, the church preserves a remarkably preserved medieval structure. Its initial vocation, both religious and linked to the military order of the Templars, makes it an emblematic site of limo history. Today owned by the commune, it illustrates the architectural and spiritual heritage of Creuse, marked by medieval religious orders.

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