Saint-Maurice

4th Sunday of the month : 11.30 am

The church with white stone walls is in the gothic style. It is in the centre of the village, at the junction of five roads, and has two volumes of different heights. The lower one is the nave ; the other, higher and with no buttresses, with the air of a massive keep, has, in its lower level, a sanctuary which is perhaps Romanesque. The added upper levels were used as hiding places.

Inside, big wall paintings by François Mes, a monk from the Abbey of Wisques, decorate the walls between the nave and the sanctuary ; we recognize St. Joseph and the Child Jesus, the Virgin and Jesus, Joan of Arc. At the back of the sanctuary a ceramic composition created by the Abbey of Wisques representing the Crucifixion. There is also a modern and very elegant font, a few paintings that were maybe inspired by Rubens, and in the paving several 18th century funeral stones of white marble with readable inscriptions.