On the face of it a fairly typical Jura village church, cruciform and with a tiled spire. The rendered and whitewashed walls make it appear rather more urban than is good for it, but the view inside is of highly coloured roofs and walls, which is splendid. I was put rather in mind of those London Anglo-catholic temples decorated in the 1890s, and this may very well date from the same time.

Until the 1960s, the church was surrounded by a delightful ramshackle graveyard, but this has now gone, and there is a cemetery up the road towards Charézier. Now, St-Saturnin sits in a sea of concrete beside the main Doucier to Pont de Poitte road, and something has been lost.

The dedication is an interesting one. Saint-Saturnin was probably the same person as Saint-Sorlin, the dedication of the church in the neighbouring parish of Charézier (the name of which is itself suspiciously similar to that of this parish). In the parish of Charézier, but actually closer to this village, is the astonishing hermitage in the woods on the site of the original minster of St-Sorlin.

Saint-Saturnin, Charcier, is easily found on the main D27 road between Doucier and Clairvaux. You can turn off here for the St-Sorlin hermitage and Lieffenan.