Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Michel
Castéra-Loubix, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 67) : classement par arrêté du 18 juillet 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/07/18 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Castéra-Loubix
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.40215, -0.03324
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084371
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1770 map "74 Auch." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise de plan basilical, à nef unique et chevet en hémicycle. Sur le côté sud se greffe une chapelle et la sacristie. Les murs sont construits d'un appareil de cailloux roulés disposés en épi, renforcés par des chainages de briques et soutenus par trois contreforts appuyés sur la partie circulaire de l'abside. Un porche surajouté abrite l'entrée. Le choeur circulaire est orné de fresques du 15e siècle, retraçant les différents épisodes de la mort du Christ (jugement, chemin de croix, crucifixion, résurrection) et se terminant par un grand jugement dernier.
English translation
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History
Church of basilical plan, with single nave and hemicycle chevet. On the south side is attached a chapel and the sacristy. The walls are built of an arrangement of rolled pebbles laid in herringbone pattern, reinforced by brick bonding and supported by three buttresses resting on the circular part of the apse. A later added porch shelters the entrance. The circular chancel is decorated with frescoes of the 15th century, depicting the various episodes of the death of Christ (judgment, way of the cross, crucifixion, resurrection) and ending with a great last judgment.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.