The St. Lawrence church in Châtel-de-Neuvre

The Romance church of Châtel-of-Neuvre overhangs the meanders Allier river. 

The parish of Châtel-of-Neuvre belonged to the diocese of Clermont. The St. Lawrence church, located at the top of a hillock dominating the valley To combine it, occupies one of the positions more spéctaculaires department.

The church comprises a very narrow nave, one of oldest Allier. This one is enlightened directly and counterthrust of sides arched in quadrant.

The projecting transept not very was modified in north at the time Gothic. The absidioles, asymmetrical, are slightly later than the nave. The bell-tower, whose stock also goes up at the time Romance, was cut down by its arrow.

With middle height of the western frontage, on each side, one notices two Gallo-Roman funerary steles very worn, which confirm, like certain carved elements employed again in the facing on the south-western side of the transept, the presence of an old ancient establishment on this site.