Concremiers

 

Concremiers is a small town of about 650 people and 400 houses on the banks of the Anglin, in the Brenne. We went there recently because we were on the hunt for a nearby castle, and were charmed by the centre of town.  Just about its only claim to fame is that the painter Gustave Courbet spent some time here in the mid-19th century and produced at least one landscape of the area. Here are some photos that we took a couple of weeks ago.

The ever lovely River Anglin.

A dinky little watermill on the Anglin.

A barn or longère.

A coat of arms above the church door.

The door inside the church to the belfry, typically very narrow. The carved door surround looks early Renaissance (mid-15th to mid-16th century).

A private garden.

A very Golem like gargoyle on a corner of the church roof.

Side entry to the church. The door surround looks contemporary with the belfry door, in that early Renaissance Italianate style.

We were amused by the juxtaposition of the current public toilets directly opposite a medieval jakes (toilet -- suspended over what I can only assume is a later door!)

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