Around 630, Saint Loup, bishop of Limoges, bestowed St. Michel's Chapel to the canons of St.

[1] The church was destroyed by two successive fires in 1123 and 1147 and was re-built by monk Pierre de Verteuil.

This Gothic church from the 14th and 16th centuries has a typical Limousin bell tower (as the Limoges Cathedral) topped by a metal ball.

The soldier in charge of the renovation of the spire wanted to install a ball atop the bell tower "to facilitate triangulation operations and geodetic measures".

With the authorization of the Ministry of Fine Arts, a new ball was supposed to replace the older one, but the First World War broke out.