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The church of Gatuzières was a rural priory of ancient implantation which was inhabited until the wars of Religion by a community of Benedictine canons. The massive building that stands against the front of the church was the parish church. Inside the church, only the apse, flanked by two engaged columns, is Romanesque. The rest was rebuilt after the Wars of Religion.

The church of Gatuzières was a rural priory of very old establishment and which was inhabited, until the wars of Religion, by a community of Benedictine canons. Initially dependent on the Benedictine abbey of Gellone (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert), the establishment passed, in 1274, into the hands of the monastery of Bonahuc, on Mount Aigoual

The massive building that stands against the front of the church was the cure

Inside the church, only the apse, flanked by two engaged columns, is Romanesque. The rest of the building was rebuilt after the ravages of the Wars of Religion (16th and 18th centuries) while the chapels are a 19th century addition.

The interior is entirely painted, and has a complete set of wooden furniture (high altar, altarpiece, pulpit, confessional)

Its last priest left in 1939, the parish of Gatuzières is now attached to that of Meyrueis.