Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle d'Assouste
Eaux-Bonnes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle d'Assouste : classement par arrêté du 10 août 1923
- Protection dates
- 1923/08/10 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Eaux-Bonnes
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.98345, -0.41113
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084385
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1779 map "108 Pau, Bearn." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La chapelle se compose d'un vaisseau terminé par un chevet demi-circulaire voûté en cul de four. L'entrée se fait par un portail latéral dans le mur sud, cantonné de deux colonnes cylindriques ornées de chapiteaux sculptés.
English translation
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History
The chapel consists of a single vessel terminated by a semicircular chevet vaulted with a cul-de-four. Entry is by a lateral portal in the south wall, flanked by two cylindrical columns ornamented with sculpted capitals.
Nearby in the register
- Château d'Espalunguechâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeurégliseunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Ancien hôtel des Princeshôtel1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.