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 Oriented toward the east, the chapel of Mayran is Romanesque. Its Latin-cross plan is completed by an apse with absidioles opening onto the transept.
Various transformations undertaken on the chapel are visible in the walls, the most notable being the raising of the nave - their original height is clearly visible in the stonework.
 The openings in the upper walls were filled in at some point, as was the southern facing doorway. The present doorway was built in the west wall opening into the center of the nave. It is decorated by a bas-relief dated 1768 representing two monks kneeling at the foot of the Virgin Mary. |
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Outlined by four arcades, the square transept supports the base of the bell tower. Four corner quarter-domes transform its shape into an octagon that is topped by a rounded cupola, itself supporting a "lantern" in finely cut stone. This tower, that holds the chapel bells, was decorated, in 1867, by a statue of the Virgin Mary.
According to the notes of the scholar Léon Allègre, written from 1845 to 1848, the nave was unique in that it was not vaulted but simply covered by a roof of visible timbers and flat bricks covered by the familiar rounded tile. The vault visible in the chapel today, made of brick, dates from later in the 19th century. |
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