It is mentioned for the first time in 1379, after having been erected as a parish by Bernard II du Sault, bishop of Saintes, on 7 July of the same year.

[1][2] After the French Revolution, in 1793, part of the religious objects are sent to the Monnaie de La Rochelle to be melted.

Oreillan, the priest of Loix of that period, seeing the pillages committed by the republicans, steals with Aunis, an accomplice from Ars, sacred vases in order to protect them.

In 1843, the bell is restored by the founder Pierre Huard and the alleys are paved by the mason Eloi Texier.

[1] During the years 1980 and 1984, the building is renovated and new stained glass windows created by Aramis Pentecôte, master glassmaker, are installed.

The first is a model frigate suspended from the vault of the nave dating from the late 18th or early 19th century.