Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle du cimetière de Bensa
Lavelanet, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle du cimetière de Bensa : inscription par arrêté du 17 avril 1950
- Protection dates
- 1950/04/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Dans le cimetière
- Lieu-dit
- Bensa
- Commune
- Lavelanet
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.93106, 1.84168
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093803
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice roman en pierres appareillées, cette chapelle est un monument assez exceptionnel dans l'Ariège. Edifice à une nef sans absidioles ni chapelles. Il se termine du côté de l'entrée par un mur à cloches. Autour de l'abside, corniche sculptée et série de modillons à figures.
English translation
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History
A Romanesque building in ashlar stone, this chapel is a rather exceptional monument in Ariège. A building with single nave without absidioles or chapels. It terminates on the entrance side with a bell wall. Around the apse, sculpted cornice and series of modillions with figures.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.