Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Georges
Saint-Geours-de-Maremne, Landes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. L 239) : inscription par arrêté du 13 février 1969
- Protection dates
- 1969/02/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Geours-de-Maremne
- Département
- Landes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.68788, -1.22907
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084004
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice roman à l'origine, dont il ne reste que le chevet qui a été remanié et fortifié au 14e siècle et auquel ont été rajoutés deux bas-côtés au 19e. Une petite entrée de choeur sépare celui-ci de la nef. Le choeur est voûté en cul de four. Le clocher porche est voûté d'ogives dans son entrée, les arcs se prolongeant jusqu'au sol mais dont la naissance est soulignée par des chapiteaux sculptés de feuillage d'un côté et de personnages de l'autre. Une tourelle polygonale d'escalier est accolée sur la face sud du clocher. La tourelle et la face ouest du clocher ont conservé leurs petites ouvertures défensives. De petites ouvertures carrées percées sous la toiture devaient éclairer le système de défense du chevet.
English translation
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History
Originally a Romanesque edifice, of which only the chevet remains, which was altered and fortified in the 14th century and to which two aisles were added in the 19th century. A small choir entrance separates it from the nave. The choir is vaulted in cul de four. The porch tower is vaulted with ribs in its entrance, the arches extending to the ground but whose origin is marked by capitals sculptured with foliage on one side and figures on the other. A polygonal turret staircase is attached to the south face of the bell tower. The turret and the west face of the bell tower have retained their small defensive openings. Small square openings pierced beneath the roof must have lit the defensive system of the chevet.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.