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At one kilometer at the north-west of the town of Lavern, near the creek of Lavernó and the road to Sant Sadurní, we find the Església de Sant Pere de Lavern, completely isolated and surrounded by cultivation lands.
The church and the rectorship were sacked in 1936 and all its artistic weath practically disappeared (crafmanship in precious metals and ornaments), even though, luckily a great part of its documental archive could be saved.
The church nowadays, of a neoromanic style, was built between the years 1912 and 1915, at the same place where until then there was a church of romanic origin which had been talked about already in 1152, when it was completely demolished and of which some stones were made good use of, some of which had marks of stone-worker, to buit the one we see there nowadays. This became, with time, a construction full with attached parts with an impressing two-floor “espardanya” bell tower and two gaps per floor, due to which a good part of its primitive romanic structure had vanished.
It is a building of a sole rectangular site, with toral half-point archs, lateral chapels with half-point arcades and semi-circular-ground-plan absis. It has a two-slope roof with Arabian tiles. The interior is decorated with paintings in fresco of recent realization. The bell tower, which is to the left of the façade, has a quadrangular shape an it is quite heigh, with a sole bell. In its construction, brick was used. It has half-point geminate windows, blind arcade, scaled marlets row and crowning.
The façade has a monumental appearance, with scaled marlets row and crowning at the top, has a half-point-arch door with blind “arquivolta”, “imposta” and decorated capitals. The lintel and the tympanum are flat. On top of them, a great rose window. A stone cross crowns the façade.
Of the first chapel, the baptism immersion pile remains intact, made of calk stone, the greatest in the region. It could be from de eleventh century.
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