Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Amand
Bascons, Landes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. E 327) : inscription par arrêté du 23 septembre 1970
- Protection dates
- 1970/09/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1626
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bascons
- Département
- Landes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.82083, -0.41851
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083926
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise fortifiée avec chemin de ronde, bretèche au-dessus du portail et du chevet, trous à archères et couleuvrines. Clocher-mur à trois ouvertures romanes. Tour ronde accolée au clocher. Beau porche à quatre archivoltes sur colonnettes. Chapiteaux à feuillages.
English translation
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History
Fortified church with parapet walk, bretèche above the portal and chevet, arrow slits and gun ports. Clocher-mur with three Romanesque openings. Round tower attached to the bell tower. Fine porch with four archvolts on small columns. Capitals with foliage.
Nearby in the register
- Monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918, situé près de l'églisemonument aux mortsunder 1 mi
- Arènes Jean de Lahourtiquearèneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.