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Église Notre-Dame

Lahonce, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 19 mai 1925
Protection dates
1925/05/19 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle, 17e siècle
Dates
1121
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Lahonce
Département
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
43.48686, -1.38625
Mérimée reference
PA00084421

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "Carte des environs de Bayonne et les costes jusqu'a Fontarabie." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Edifice roman composé d'une nef unique que termine à l'ouest une abside en cul de four. Le côté sud est adossé à un vaste ensemble de bâtiments, restes d'un ancien couvent de Prémontrés. A l'intérieur, la voûte est lambrissée, en forme d'ogive brisée très surbaissée. Suivant l'usage local, un double étage de tribunes occupe une grande partie des murs latéraux. Le portail roman est abrité sous un porche fermé. Le chevet est orné de neuf arcatures légèrement ogivales retombant sur des culots sculptés et, de trois en trois, sur les chapiteaux de colonnes formant contreforts. L'église présente un clocher trinitaire. La porte romane possède trois colonnettes de chaque côté, surmontées de chapiteaux à crossettes et à personnages.

English translation

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Romanesque building composed of a single nave terminated to the west by an apse in the form of a quarter-sphere vault. The south side is set against a vast ensemble of buildings, remains of a former convent of Premonstratensians. Inside, the vault is coffered, in the form of a very flattened pointed arch. Following local usage, a double storey of galleries occupies a large part of the lateral walls. The Romanesque portal is sheltered beneath a closed porch. The chevet is adorned with nine slightly pointed arcatures resting on carved corbels and, at intervals of three, on the capitals of columns forming buttresses. The church presents a tripartite bell tower. The Romanesque door has three small columns on each side, surmounted by capitals with crossettes and figures.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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