Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Bais

About

The church is much older than Abbé Angot wrote, according to which the current building was the result of a total reconstruction in 1612. The abbot was wrong, in July 1984, Romanesque paintings of the 11th century or the 12th century (they would seem to be by the same hand as that of the church Saint-Vigor de Neau) were discovered in the choir, then a painted 16th century wall panel in the northern chapel. The hypothesis of total reconstruction no longer stands.

At the beginning of the 17th century, at the end of religious wars, parishioners in Bais felt the need to expand their church. The existing Romanesque building is completely upset, in particular by the addition of lower sides to the original nave by encroaching on an old cemetery (hence the discovery of skeletons). On the other hand, the choir is preserved.

During the Revolution in June-July 1799, the church served as a battlefield and suffered a real looting, the graves having been desecrated, returned with the hope of finding money, jewels... One of the last major battles of the cabbage factory took place in Bais. The Republicans had cut off in the church and the Chouans set fire to the presbytery...