Church of Saint Hilary the Great: North transept and tower, apse and chevet to the left

The church was reconstructed in the 11th century on the presumed site of St. Hilary's tomb (first bishop of Poitiers, ca. 350); fragments of pre-Romanesque sculpture are preserved in the present ambulatory. The entire east end and one and a half nave bays survive from the 11th-century building, but the rest was damaged during the French Revolution and restored in the 19th century. St Hilaire was one of the earliest and most important centres of Romanesque sculpture in France. The oldest sculptures are the foliate capitals of Corinthian inspiration in the two lower storeys of the old tower-porch (ca. 1035-1045). Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France.