Saint-Pierre d'Avon Church is one of the oldest buildings in the region. It is estimated that its oldest part dates back to about 1100 and that it is contemporary of the Basilica of Saint Mathurin in Larchant. Avon, as a parish, is mentioned as early as 839 in a charter of Louis the Pious.
The church consists of thick walls, a square bell tower and is firmly encased over a whole apparatus of sandstone wedges, supported in the northern part in slope, on an outcrop rocky bench.
Its rustic appearance is endearing, due to its tiered roofs and its original porch under the shelter of which Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, sat on one of the stone benches, taught catechism to the little Avonnais.
Inside a simple Romanesque nave leads to the luminous flight of the Gothic choir due, in 1555, to the generosity of Jean de Montceau, seigneur of the place. Of the altarpiece Henri II which once adorned the altar, there remain only two statues in polychrome wood miraculously recovered from

Édifice religieux