Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne chapelle Saint-Pierre
Ercé, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Pierre (ancienne) , sur la R.D. 32 (cad. A 1196) : inscription par arrêté du 19 mars 1979
- Protection dates
- 1979/03/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- R.D. 32
- Commune
- Ercé
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.85317, 1.28099
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093788
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1781 map "40 Ax." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petite chapelle rectangulaire à chevet plat, tribune et clocheton à une arcade à l'ouest. L'édifice ouvre par un portail roman surmonté, sur sa droite, d'un bas-relief représentant Saint-Pierre dans une attitude rarement retrouvée.
English translation
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History
Small rectangular chapel with flat chevet, gallery and small bell-tower with one arcade opening to the west. The building opens by a Romanesque portal surmounted, on its right, by a bas-relief representing Saint-Peter in an attitude rarely found.
Nearby in the register
- Croix en fercroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Église de l'Assomptionégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.