Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Mézin, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Mézin
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.05626, 0.25747
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084169
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "73 Agen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La nef aux chapiteaux sculptés remonte au 13e - 14e siècle. La façade est flanquée de deux tours rondes symétriques. Le portail possède des chapiteaux ornés de figures fantastiques. Le portail nord est surmonté de douze niches qui auraient contenu les statues des apôtres, selon la tradition détruites au cours des guerres de Religion. Le clocher repose sur les piliers de la voûte du choeur. Autrefois adossé à l'église se trouvait le couvent des Bénédictins, qui communiquait avec elle par la sacristie et une chapelle latérale. Le couvent fut détruit à la Révolution.
English translation
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History
The nave with sculpted capitals dates from the 13th-14th century. The façade is flanked by two symmetric round towers. The portal has capitals adorned with fantastic figures. The north portal is surmounted by twelve niches which would have contained the statues of the apostles, according to tradition destroyed during the Wars of Religion. The bell tower rests on the pillars of the vault of the choir. Formerly attached to the church was the convent of the Benedictines, which communicated with it by the sacristy and a lateral chapel. The convent was destroyed during the Revolution.
Nearby in the register
- Monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918, situé près de l'églisemonument aux mortsunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Barthélémy de Trignanéglise1 mi
- Église Sainte-Marieéglise2 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.