_Take the rue Saint-Léger as far as the Church of Saint-Léger, the houses round about which have been destroyed_ (_photo above_). CHURCH OF SAINT-LÉGER [Illustration: SAINT-LÉGER CHURCH.] This church was formerly part of an abbey founded in 1152 in memory of Saint-Léger, Bishop of Autun, assassinated in 678 by the Mayor of the Palace, Ebroïn. The nave and west front were rebuilt in the 17th century, after the sack of the monastery by the Huguenots in 1567. It is now secularized. The nave, separated from the rest of the building by a wall, was used before the war as a hall for public meetings, while a geological museum was to have been installed in the transept and choir. The façade is 17th century. The central semi-circular porch is supported by twin columns with Ionic capitals. Its large doorway, surmounted by a broken triangular frontal, is flanked by fluted pilasters. [Illustration: SAINT-LÉGER CHURCH. _Cloister and North Front. In the background: Ruined Tower._] Above the porch rises the two-storied tower. The first story has a single semi-circular bay on each front, and is divided by Corinthian pilasters. The second story has two twin bays and fluted columns with Corinthian capitals at the corners. The whole east front of the upper story was demolished by the bombardments (_photo above_). The windows and corner columns fell on the roof of the nave, breaking it in many places. The nave, with double side-aisles, was reconstructed in the 17th century, and is of little interest. Three of its vaulted bays have fallen in (_photo below_). [Illustration: THE NAVE, ST-LÉGER CHURCH.] [Illustration: SOUTH ARM OF TRANSEPT, ST-LÉGER CHURCH, IN 1914.] The two-armed transept, as well as the choir which terminates in a canted chevet (_photos opposite and below_) were less injured. They date from the 13th century, but have been restored. They have pointed vaults, and are lighted by high and low windows separated by a narrow triforium. The windows of the transept-ends and of the choir are double and surmounted by a rose-window; those of the apse are single and framed outside by abutments. The wall at the end of the north arm of the transept, at the back of which were the monastic buildings, has no opening, but that of the south arm is entirely open. The exterior façades of both arms end in a gable pierced by narrow slits and are flanked by buttresses in the form of polygonal turrets. The east buttress of the north arm was badly damaged by a shell. Shell holes are visible in the walls of the chevet and in the vaulting of the south arm of the transept. [Illustration: CHEVET AND TRANSEPT, ST-LÉGER CHURCH, IN 1914.] [Illustration: THE CLOISTER OF ST-LÉGER CHURCH IN 1914. _The old cloister was full of flowers_ ...] Through the north aisle of the nave of the church the old =cloister= of the abbey, built at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th centuries, is reached. The north and east galleries alone remain.