CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION

The church of Gatuzières was a rural priory of very ancient origin, inhabited until the Wars of Religion by a community of Benedictine canons. Initially dependent on the Benedictine abbey of Gellone (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert), the establishment passed, in 1274, into the hands of the Bonahuc monastery on Mont Aigoual. The massive building that rises against the church's facade served as its rectory. Inside the church, only the apse, flanked by two engaged columns, is Romanesque. The rest of the building was rebuilt after the ravages of the Wars of Religion (16th and 18th centuries), while the chapels are a 19th-century addition. The interior is entirely painted and features a complete set of wooden furnishings (high altar, altarpiece, altars, pulpit, confessional). With its last priest having left in 1939, the parish of Gatuzières is now attached to that of Meyrueis.