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The church of Saint Vincent de Panzoult, classified as a Historic Monument in 1947, has an elongated initial plan, transformed by the addition of two collaterals and a northern chapel. Its western facade, in small apparatus, dates from the 11th century and retains a door and a bay in the middle of the hanger. A second bay, pierced in the 16th century and then murated, shows an oblique bracing. The central vessel, covered with a false vault of broken crib, communicates with the collaterals by arches in the middle of the hangar, while the choir, with a flat bedside, is decorated with arches of curved warheads with multiple veins.

In the 12th century, the church depended on the abbey of Marmoutier. The nave, rebuilt in the 16th century, was enlarged by two columns vaulted with warheads, and a seigneurial chapel was added to the north. The square bell tower, built in the 13th century, was raised from an open floor in the 16th century, while its modern octagonal stone arrow dates from the first half of the 19th century. The western facade, the only vestige of the 11th century, contrasts with the 13th century choir, whose angeline vaults house statuettes. A key arch bearing the date of 1619, and restorations were carried out in 1856 (the nave vault) and 1959 (the bell tower base).

The building illustrates medieval and Renaissance architectural evolution, mixing Romanesque elements (façade), Gothics (bells of warheads) and late additions (collaterals, chapel). The bell tower arrow, redone in the 19th century, and the walled bays bear witness to successive adaptations. The property of the commune, the church preserves traces of its seigneurial and monastic past, linked to the abbey of Marmoutier, while reflecting local constructive techniques, such as the typical angeline vaults of the region.

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