Church of Saint-Juvin
It's a fortified church. Built between 1615 and 1624, Saint-Juvin is a real little fortress: high and thick walls, narrow windows, corner towers... Claude de Joyeuse (Count of Grandpré), the parish priest Didier Mauclerc and the inhabitants of Saint-Juvin took part in its construction.
About this building
The church has a very simple rectangular plan, with a half-corbelled turret at each corner of the rectangle. The two western turrets are square at the base and then cylindrical, and the other two are hexagonal. The one to the south is decorated with a sundial. It has no bell tower. The walls of the church are two meters thick, the turrets are pierced with loopholes. Machicolations overhang the doors. The whole thing is simple, with very little ornamentation.
