Cachen is a common French, located in the department of the Landes and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

Commune located in the middle of the Landaise forest and crossed by Gouaneyre ( black water in Gascon).

History

Administration

Demography

The inhabitants of Cachen are Cachenais.

Places and monuments

the church of Guinas

Located in a clearing of the district of Guinas, to 3 km in the south-east of Cachen, the small Notre-Dame church of the Nativity is a building modest, but full with charm and interest.

Even if it is composed of elements built at various times, the unit gives an impression of unit and harmony.

Probably built at the 13th century, the primitive church was partially destroyed at the 16th century, at the time of the wars of religion. It seems that there were three rebuilding work campaigns. The bell-tower wall of origin was respected but probably at the 18th century, the apse was capped with a neo-classic dome surmounted of a pinnacle and papered slates which represents a work of considerable frame. This dome was restored in 1959, at the instigation of the Company of Bordered, with the financial support of the general advice of the Moors.

Let us enter the porch. The principal main door with double leaves in oak carved present of the panels decorated with a polychrome decoration at dominant blue. In the top of the door, registered in two quadrants, appear two characters vêtus of red: on the left, the Virgin posed on a crescent of the moon, on the right holy Andre in front of the cross of his torment. The faces of the two characters carry the traces of a very old mutilation. This door would date from. The lock and the key are old.

Let us penetrate now in the church.

• The single nave without sides presents a basket-handle vault.

• On the right with the alley, the stone stoup is decorated with will gaudrons and traces of polychromy there are guessed.

• The baptismal font of primitive time is made of a stone digs base belonging to the basin.

• On the northern side of the nave, the pulpit and its sounding-board would date from the beginning of the 18th century. The unit is in polychrome oak painted in beige, blue and green

• Chorus which can date from the east decorated with two large stone columns with garlands (perhaps of recovery) supporting a large bent cornice.

This neo-classic retable appears quite monumental for a modest church of hamlet. The side piles are rather curious: circulars on the front and grooved with the back as if they had been placed at back.

• The whole of the high altar is composed of the gate vault and a small retable with three panels out of wooden gilded with the fine gold, decorated heads of polychrome angels. It was restored in 1987.

• Above the furnace bridge, a table dating from the 19th century represents a Virgin with the Child.

In the sacristy, one can see a beautiful cupboard known as “of the Factory”. It is a piece of furniture with two bodies of different times, bottom would date from the 17th century, the top of

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