Saint-Romain / Saint-Romain-de-Surieu

Berthin (1838) writes: "Le village de Surieu forme, dans le canton de Roussillon, une section de la commune de St-Romain", and refers to Chorier's 'Histoire générale du Dauphiné' of 1661, where it is stated that Atenulphe "Seigneur de Tullins,& Agnes sa Femme, Ponce, surnommé Hector, & Hugues, Fils de Bournon" restored several churches, including those of "S Romain" and "Surieu" to the Abbaye S. Pierre de Vienne in 1091. Berthin (ibid.) further notes that the old church of Surieu was located north of the river Sane -hence the nickname of le-Haut- while St-Romain was located south of the river; Surieu was already a hamlet of Saint-Romain [cf. supra] and would later merge into the present Saint-Romain-de-Surieu. Both churches, therefore, existed separately by the end of the 11th century. Berthin (ibid.) does not have much to say about the old church of Saint-Romain, except that very little remains of the original construction, a few heads built into the new façade and the hlf-columns that support the chancel arch. If there was a font in it, no mention is made of it.