The church of Saint-Germain has a very ancient origin; the land of Poilly was indeed given by its patron saint, who owned it in his own right, to the episcopal church of Auxerre. The parish is cited in several texts of the 9th century. In the Middle Ages, the building was part of a fortified complex surrounded by ditches, called Fort de Poilly. After the Hundred Years War, a new choir was rebuilt in the extension of the nave; this one, whose walls date back to the thirteenth century was in turn enriched in the sixteenth century with a beautiful Renaissance portal where one could still read in the past century the date of 1538\. Finally, the tower, destroyed during the Wars of Religion, was rebuilt into a beautiful regular apparatus and rises today to 52 m, and in 1690 a chapel of funerary character was built on the north flank by Zacharie Thierrat, first lord of Poilly. Inside, the church has a stone altarpiece dated 1629, classified as a Historical Monument, as well as the wrought iro

Édifice religieux, Édifice rural

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