Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Bénac, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 129) : inscription par arrêté du 22 mai 1957
- Protection dates
- 1957/05/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Later work
- 20e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Sur le chemin vicinal
- Commune
- Bénac
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.95448, 1.53193
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093776
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 1776 map "39 St. Lizier, St. Martory." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Primitivement composée d'une nef unique terminée par une abside voûtée en cul de four, l'église a été ultérieurement entourée de trois petits bâtiments annexes (sacristie, presbytère, hangar) et d'un porche flanqué d'une tourelle d'escalier. L'édifice initial était d'un type assez répandu dans les régions pyrénéennes entre le 11e et le 14e siècle. Les travaux d'agrandissement et de restauration ont été réalisés vers 1900, déséquilibrant le vieux clocher-mur par l'ajout de la tourelle de style troubadour.
English translation
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History
Originally composed of a single nave terminated by an apse vaulted in cul-de-four, the church was subsequently surrounded by three small ancillary buildings (sacristy, presbytery, shed) and a porch flanked by a staircase turret. The initial edifice was of a type fairly widespread in the Pyrenean regions between the 11th and 14th centuries. The works of enlargement and restoration were carried out around 1900, unbalancing the old clocher-mur by the addition of the turret in troubadour style.