Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cathédrale Saint-Caprais
Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- La cathédrale : classement par liste de 1862
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- cathédrale
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Agen
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.20678, 0.61931
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084035
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1842 map "46. Lot et Garonne. Agen (Guienne & Gascogne)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cathédrale construite à l'époque romane. Elle possède trois absides semi-circulaires, l'une de vastes proportions à l'extrémité de la nef, les deux autres plus petites situées à l'est des bras du transept. A la croisée du transept, quatre grosses piles (dont deux renferment des escaliers) étaient probablement destinées à soutenir une coupole, mais aux 13e et 14e siècles, ce sont des voûtes d'arêtes qui ont été réalisées.
English translation
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History
Cathedral built in the Romanesque period. It has three semi-circular apses, one of vast proportions at the end of the nave, the two others smaller situated to the east of the transept arms. At the crossing of the transept, four large piers (two of which contain staircases) were probably intended to support a dome, but in the 13th and 14th centuries, groined vaults were constructed instead.
Nearby in the register
- Croix de missioncroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Collège de Saint-Capraiscollègeunder 1 mi
- Église du Martrouégliseunder 1 mi
- Tour du Chapeletédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.