This former church of the Castral village, mentioned in 1135 as dependent on the abbey of Saint-Victor, remains parish church until 1440, when the parish moves to the church of Saint-Pierre, near the cemetery; it then becomes again an ordinary chapel, and has since only been used during the celebrations of August 15. It originally had a single nave (the current right nave) with cul-de-four apse, then were added in the 14th century, on the initiative of the Castellane family, then lords of Jouques, one lateral nave to the south (nave Saint-Claude, now collapsed) another to the north (nave Sainte-Anne, through which one enters) then, in this one and to the north, two side chapels dedicated to Sainte-Agathe and Sainte-Madeleine. Arcades were opened in the lateral walls of the primitive nave to make the three naves communicate. After the collapse of the nave Saint-Claude in 1778, a fire occurred in 1837, the roofs are rebuilt with ceilings on the two remaining naves (1861). The door of the early church was to be on the south side facade, and it is probably this door that has been reused to be placed, in the west wall of the nave Sainte-Anne, facing the outlet of the main street of the village. The Romanesque church was surmounted, above the triumphal arch, by a small openwork bell-tower with three lodges, replaced in 1390 by the square bell-tower built behind the nave of Sainte-Anne. It has itself been redesigned, gargoyles marking the level of a first roof.

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Sommet du village 13490 Jouques, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France