Église Notre-Dame de Lancharre, Romanesque priory church in Lancharre, Chapaize, France

The Église Notre-Dame de Lancharre is a partly ruined Romanesque priory church in the hamlet of Lancharre, 2 km northeast of Chapaize. Its nave was demolished around 1850, leaving a chevet with a semicircular apse and two apsidioles, each pierced by three windows and covered in stone slabs. A square tower with a steep pyramidal roof stands off-centre at the crossing, its top stage opened by paired pointed bays; a ruined wall with a round-arched doorway runs in front.

The church dates from the 12th century and belonged to an abbey founded in the 11th century by the lords of Brancion for noble canonesses known as the Dames de Lancharre, later Benedictines. In 1626 abbess Marie du Blé moved the nuns to Chalon, leaving only a parish church, and the nave was demolished around 1850. It was classified as a monument historique on 8 September 1930.

The name Lancharre recalls the noble canonesses, the "Dames de Lancharre", who lived each in her own house under the abbey founded by the lords of Brancion. Five tomb slabs, moved from the floor to the walls, carry the names of prioresses and benefactors: Isabeau de Vaulvry (died 1286), Pierreau de Saint-Clément (1290), Geoffroy de Germolles (1297), Marguerite de Germolles (1302) and Fauquette de Nanton (1326).

The church stands in the hamlet of Lancharre, 2 km northeast of Chapaize; the nave was demolished around 1850, so the building is entered through the surviving chevet and bell tower area. The ruined wall with its round-arched doorway stands in front. Interior renovation finished in 2018, and the 1930 listing protects the whole structure.

Five floor slabs of prioresses and benefactors, moved from the paving to the walls, are listed as historical monuments since 1899. Their inscriptions name eleven prioresses who led the house from 1245 to 1626, among them Marguerite de Germolles, died 1302, called the "Tomb of the Great Abbess".