Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Avit
Lacapelle-Biron, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Avit : classement par arrêté du 17 juin 1954
- Protection dates
- 1954/06/17 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Lacapelle-Biron
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.58971, 0.88190
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084139
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 1628 map "Potamographie de Garone et des Fleuves qui Rendent Dedans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane à une nef rectangulaire avec choeur voûté en cul de four. Clocher barlong à toiture pyramidale. L'ensemble a conservé son état d'origine, hormis deux baies de la nef transformées au 15e siècle. Selon la tradition, Bernard Palissy aurait été baptisé dans cette église.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church with a single rectangular nave with choir vaulted in apse. Bell tower with oblong plan and pyramidal roof. The whole has preserved its original condition, except for two bays of the nave transformed in the 15th century. According to tradition, Bernard Palissy was baptised in this church.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Sardos de Laurunqueéglise2 mi
- Ancien prieuré Saint-Sardos de Laurenqueprieuré2 mi
- Église de Bonne Nouvelleéglise2 mi
- Ancien châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.