Saint Paul Church of Bagneux – Moulins Cathedral loop from Couzon
Saint Paul Church of Bagneux – Moulins Cathedral loop from Couzon
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Saint Paul Church of Bagneux – Moulins Cathedral loop from Couzon
02:23
55.2km
400m
Road cycling
Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: March 28, 2026
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7.51 km
Saint Paul Church of Bagneux
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The church, dedicated to Saint Paul, is a modest building with a single nave dating back to the Romanesque period, but remodeled in the 17th century. north side, asymmetrically. The choir is composed of a straight bay and a semicircular apse, decorated with an arcade made up of three semicircular arches framing the windows and separated by two miter arches. These arches are received on columns crowned with capitals with foliage or scales. The choir is covered with a continuous barrel vault, and the nave with an exposed framework; the columns supporting the triumphal arch were redone in the 19th century.
Outside, only a string of billets decorates the apse. The hexagonal bell tower is made of wood, covered with chestnut trees and stands at the rear of the west gable. This is pierced by a pointed arch door and a small window to the south. An old wooden porch, probably built at the same time as the bell tower in the 16th century, was removed in the 19th century.
The choir retains a terracotta floor bearing traces of yellow enamel, with rosettes formed by groups of four tiles, incised with circles. A double baptismal font, in Gothic style, and a mass foundation plaque from 1679 complete the current furnishings of the church, a processional cross from the parish being kept in the treasury of Moulins Cathedral.
For the restoration of the exterior walls of the apse, the Safeguarding of French Art paid €4,000 in 2003.
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Church of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption et de la Recouvrance
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In 1905 it was placed under the name of Our Lady of the Assumption and Recovery.
The two existing bells in the bell tower come from the old church.
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26.2 km
Moulins Cathedral
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27.4 km
Sacred Heart Church, Moulins
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30.3 km
View of Moulins and its cathedral
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32.6 km
Water Crossing
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47.5 km
Notre-Dame Church
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Built at the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th, the current building belongs to the transitional Romanesque style. Indeed, if it is Romanesque in its general plan, the ornamentation of its portals and its capitals, its narrow semi-circular openings, its elegant apse and its cul-de-four vaulted apsidioles, it is "timidly" Gothic through the vault of its nave. Furthermore, built at the crossroads of three dioceses, this construction was influenced by the Burgundian, Auvergne and Berry schools. The capitals are most interesting: intertwined foliage, heads of grimacing men and beasts, grotesque masks...
A statue of the Virgin with the bird in polychrome wood dates from the 17th century. It is remarkable for its state of preservation and its subject: Mary holding the child Jesus in her arms with a bird perched on his hand. This refers to the apocryphal gospel of the childhood of Jesus according to Thomas written in the 3rd century: Jesus as a child performs miracles such as giving life to clay birds.
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55.2 km
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Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
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45.3 km
5.14 km
3.21 km
1.25 km
290 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
51.6 km
2.21 km
843 m
569 m
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