2015-08-10 St.Maurice des Lions, église Saint-Maurice,Charente, Poitou Charentes

The parish church of Saint-Maurice originally dates from the end of the twelfth century. It has an oblong dome on trunks to cross-vaulted nave with a barrel vault, vaulted edges collateral, carved capitals gate.
History
In the Middle Ages, Saint-Maurice was on a cross route of a road to Saint Jacques de Compostela, which was heading towards the Limousin Angoulême by Manot to branch off to Saintes (relics of St. Eutrope) Blanzac (towards Blaye) or Aubeterre (to Sainte-Foy-la-Grande).
Parish Lézignac-on-Goire was a cure-dependent priory of the abbey of Lesterps. The church was demolished and it is still more than a tombstone of the thirteenth century.
Initially, Chambon was part of the parish of Chirac. Towards the end of the thirteenth century, it was erected in particular parish. It depends first of the Grand Commandery Madieu.
Under the Old Regime, the three parishes depended on Confolens County, but none of them was the seat of a court.
The fiefs were numerous and small. The main families were family Barbarin, who possessed the fiefs of Ponteuil and Touderie, family Assier Brushes, family and families Rouziers The Court of Rocquart, Pin and La Sudrie.
Jean-François Assier, more known as the Chevalier d'Assier, had the stronghold of brushes, in Saint-Maurice, but also Tourteron in the parish of St. Simeux.
Family Rouziers was first established in the parish of Lézignac, then it acquired in 1618 the area of ​​Rhus, it still possessed in the early twentieth century. One of its members, François Rouziers, was appointed governor of Brigueuil in 1573 by Count de Lude, governor of Poitou.
Three lions granite once adorned the town of Saint-Maurice. Today only one remains, very worn by the weather and the children who rode at the foot of the granite cross the central square of the town, instead of Terrier. Local tradition has it that the other two were stolen by the residents of Limoges after a violent brawl. The assumption seems plausible because both lions adorning the church of Saint-Michel-des-Lions in Limoges strongly resemble that of St. Maurice17.
In the center of town, an old chapel must date from the seventeenth century. There was once a fabric tapestry, which has disappeared.
The town was formed after the Revolution by the three parishes of Saint-Maurice, the most important, Lézignac-sur-Goire and Le Chambon, parish that was shared with the town of Chirac. It became the largest municipality of the department.
In the early twentieth century, the industry was still represented by some mills, the most important was that of the brushes, and some granite quarries.wp