Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Montfort-en-Chalosse, Landes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. D 158) : inscription par arrêté du 9 octobre 1970
- Protection dates
- 1970/10/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montfort-en-Chalosse
- Département
- Landes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.70658, -0.83923
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083986
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1771 map "107 Aire, Orthez." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne église abbatiale construite par les moines Barnabites. C'est un édifice roman à choeur arrondi, dont les voûtes refaites au 17e siècle avec faux plafond. Le bas-côté droit paraît avoir été d'abord une chapelle unique. Le bas-côté gauche comprend un choeur à pans. Les chapiteaux représentent trois femmes se disputant, celle du centre étant saisie par les cheveux par les deux autres femmes qu'elle attrape par les jambes.
English translation
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History
Former abbey church built by Barnabite monks. It is a Romanesque building with rounded choir, whose vaults were remade in the 17th century with a false ceiling. The right aisle appears to have initially been a single chapel. The left aisle comprises a choir with sections. The capitals depict three women quarrelling, the one in the centre being seized by the hair by the other two women whom she grasps by the legs.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.