The Saint-Thomas Chapel is an isolated chapel, attached to a fairly large cemetery. It houses a listed 12th-century fresco.
Description
The Saint-Thomas chapel is located almost halfway between the hamlet of Châteaugarnier (to the north) and that of La Bâtie (to the south), on the road from Saint-André-les-Alpes to Thorame-Basse.
The current building is constructed of sandstone rubble, visible on the western facade, covered with a coating on the other sides. Three buttresses punctuate the north and south facades. Oriented, the chapel has a simple plan with a single nave with two bays extended by a semicircular chancel. At the rear, to the east, accessible by a door piercing the chevet, is a semicircular apse, serving as a sacristy, partially covered with a cul-de-four vault resting on a projecting quarter-round molding. The nave is vaulted with "simular groins" (Collier) not meeting and falling on corbels. It is lit by two semicircular bays in the chancel and by the oculus located above the entrance door. The pavement is made of traditional terracotta mallons. The whole is covered with hollow tiles on two rows of Genoese tiles. A small single-bay comb bell tower is located directly above the western facade.
The cemetery, still used by the inhabitants of Chateaugarnier and La Bâtie, extends to the southeast of the chapel. It is divided in two, the oldest part being against the chevet.
source: General inventory of cultural heritage of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region