The church of Saint-Gault is located a little below the lower court of the castle of Yèvre-le-Châtel. It is accessed through a portico of ogival style whose presence testifies to profound reshapings. At a time when the royal domain was simply going from Senlis to the Val-de-Loire, Yèvre-le-Châtel, along with Montlhéry and Étampes, protected the road that kings used to take from Paris to Orléans. It was Louis VI the Fat who made Yèvre-le-Châtel, in 1112, a powerful châtellenie. To atone, it is said, for the misdeeds of her husband, who lived by rapines in the region, Lucinde, the wife of Baron Arnoud, who had been given the fief of Yèvre, founded an abbey in the 11th century within the castle under the invocation of Saint-JosephGault, a Breton saint whose relics had been brought to the region by monks fleeing the Norman invasion. The Saint-Gault chapel was originally a single nave building with a square choir and a semi-circular apse. Its bedside, characteristic of the Romanesque church

Monument historique & Édifice religieux

Open from 1 April to 1 November, every day, from 2 pm to 6 pm. Parking in the village