Eglise Saint-Côme-Saint-Damien de Neufmanil

The church of Saint-Côme-Saint-Damien, located in the centre of the village with a south-facing choir, was built between 1779 and 1780, according to a project from 1774. The bell tower bears the date of 1779, and an inscription from 1830 on a pillar seems to mark the opening of an arcade connecting the bell tower to the chapel of the fonts. The parish is mentioned before 1312, and the old church, 17 metres long, had two chapels added in the XNUMXth century.

The current church, with an elongated plan, comprises a nave with three naves of five bays preceded by a western massif with the bell tower, framed by the chapel of the fonts and a wooden staircase. The choir consists of a straight bay framed by sacristies and a cul-de-four apse. Built in schist and quartzite rubble, with elements in cut stone from Dom-le-Mesnil, the church has a floor of Saint-Laurent slabs in the nave and a checkerboard of black and grey marble in the choir. The walls, coated on the inside, are pierced with semi-circular bays.

The western façade, ordered, includes a semi-circular portal framed by Tuscan pilasters, bays and a polygonal spire on the bell tower. The nave is covered with a segmental barrel vault supported by Tuscan columns, the aisles by depressed barrels and the apse by a cul-de-four vault. The church is entirely covered with slate with long-span roofs, hips on the sacristies and a round hip on the apse.