La Garde-Adhémar - St Michel

A chapel dedicated to St-Michel in La Garde-Adhémar is mentioned as early as 1105, but the present church was certainly not built until 40 years later (at the same time as the church in Bourg- St-Andéol on the other side of the Rhône, and the Cathedral in St- Paul-Trois-Châteaux). The church was restored in 1849/50 at the instigation of Prosper Mérimée.

With its simple clear architectural forms St-Michel, although situated in the extreme south of the Dauphiné, is typical of Provençal Romanesque - a lack of figure- decoration, little articulation and masonry precisely shaped and assembled. Its three aisles form a square, on the east side are three apses but no transept. The nave has a barrel-roof and the side aisles a quarter-barrel