L’église Saint-Gilles

The present-day parish church of Rieumes, first dedicated to Saint Pierre and then to Saint Gilles, was built in 1525 by the Toulouse master masons Privat and Monestié. At the time, it was a single-nave building with a brick-walled bell tower. The nave and canted chevet remain from this building.

Two chapels were added in the second quarter of the 16th century by private individuals who set up their necropolises there. One of them, the north-west chapel, has a beautiful Gothic stretcher and tierceron vault supported by limestone lamp bases decorated with cherubs. It houses a stone baptismal font with a Gascon inscription dating from 1544.

The church also houses the 17th-century statues of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Gilles, an 18th-century pulpit and the 19th-century Cavaillé-Coll organ. The ceiling paintings were carried out after 1850 by the Ariège painters Pédoya.