Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Fontarède
Moncaut, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Fontarède (cad. E 193) : inscription par arrêté du 25 novembre 1958
- Protection dates
- 1958/11/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Moncaut
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.13712, 0.47897
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084171
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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
Eglise romane à une seule nef, sans transept, et à chevet plat, éclairée par d'étroites ouvertures formant meurtrières. Les voûtes du choeur ont été refaites sur croisées d'ogives. Sur la face nord se trouve une tour ronde accolée, servant de clocher. Le portail roman est en plein cintre mouluré avec bandeau sculpté de feuillages reposant sur des piliers carrés, et des colonnes rondes aux chapiteaux ornés d'oiseaux et d'animaux fantastiques. Dans le tympan est représenté le Christ bénissant.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church with a single nave, without transept, and with flat chevet, lit by narrow openings forming loopholes. The vaults of the choir were remade on rib vaults. On the north face is found a round tower adjoining it, serving as a bell tower. The Romanesque portal is a moulded round arch with a carved band of foliage resting on square pillars, and round columns with capitals decorated with birds and fantastic animals. In the tympanum is represented the blessing Christ.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.