The church sits on a steep rise at the junction between the roads to Pont de Poitte and Songeson. It is concealed by buildings, and although the tower is visible from miles around you might easily miss it once in the village itself.

A steep grass path leads up to the north side of the church, and the entrance to the gravelled churchyard is to the west. The tower is in three stages, and rises to a pretty cupola.

The church was rebuilt on the site of an earlier one in the early 18th century. It is shown on an engraving of 1778 looking fairly like it does now. However, some details appear 16th century - the archway to the west does not reappear beneath the tower, so is probably a survival from the earlier building.

I've visited this church on several occasions, and never found it locked. You step beneath the west tower and into the nave beyond. What strikes you first is the estraordinary mural painting at the back of the sanctuary. It depicts the Assumption, and was completed in 1954 by Dominique Mayet. Traditionalists might like to observe that this was before Vatican II. The Blessed Virgin sits at the top, and below her the villagers of Doucier go out into the world to spread the Gospel. The houstops of the village are to the left. At one time there was a window here, its light blocked by the later sacristy, but it was walled over in 1947.

The building is cruciform, and there are curious tracery panels mounted on the wall of the south transept. They also appear 16th century, and come perhaps from stalls that remained in use from the earlier church. If you go up into the sanctuary, you can see the original sacristy now reordered as a baptistry, the font beneath modern glass.

Outside in the heat of the graveyard, three fine family memorials stand side by side. The most easterly is almost a chapel in itself, and the lizards basked lazily on its roof.

Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, Doucier, is at the southern end of the village at its highest point. Doucier is on the D27 between Crotenay and Clairvaux.