Église Saint-Germain de La Ferté-Loupière, Medieval church in La Ferté-Loupière, France

Église Saint-Germain is a stone church built from the early 12th century, with a single nave, a projecting transept and a semi-circular apse flanked by two oriented apsidoles. Its west facade carries a clock with Roman numerals, a bell-cote with one bell, a round-headed window and a large pointed Gothic window above a pointed archway. Inside, the nave has a barrel-vaulted ceiling and the choir opens onto a stained-glass pointed window above a white carved altar.

Built at the start of the 12th century, the church originally had a single nave, a projecting transept and a semi-circular apse with two oriented absidioles. In the 15th century the Courtenay family remodelled it in Flamboyant Gothic, opening the large windows; their arms survive on the north chapel window. A third campaign in the 17th century gave the nave its present vault and replaced the choir and chapel vaults with barrel vaults.

The walls display a large medieval painting showing people from different walks of life together, reflecting the thoughts of that era. Visitors can see this scene today and notice the details of each figure.

The church stands at the eastern edge of the village, beside the line of the former protective ditches. The nave vault, raised side aisles and barrel-vaulted choir and chapels all date from the 17th-century campaign, and the wooden spiral staircase serving the bell tower survives from that time. The wall paintings were in poor condition and were to be restored, so some areas may be covered or under work.

The north wall holds a Danse Macabre about 25 metres long with 42 figures: a seated reciter, three skeleton musicians and 19 pairs of living and dead, preceded by the Dict des Trois Morts et des Trois Vifs. Only eight Danse Macabre paintings are officially recorded in France.