Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Le Mas-d'Azil, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Clocher : inscription par arrêté du 17 avril 1950
- Protection dates
- 1950/04/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Sur la place principale
- Commune
- Le Mas-d'Azil
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.08003, 1.36037
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093816
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église a été reconstruite au début du 17e siècle. Le clocher se présente comme une construction polygonale sur plan carré, terminée par un bulbe, forme rare dans la région. Les deux contreforts d'angle se terminent à la partie haute par une volute. La façade est précédée d'un porche : des colonnes de pierre peintes en rouge supportent une forte charpente. Sous ce porche se trouve la porte. Encadrement de pierre avec fins pilastres, entablement, niche centrale encadrée de volutes, boules. Cette porte s'apparente aux église de style colonial espagnol.
English translation
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History
The church was rebuilt at the beginning of the 17th century. The bell tower is presented as a polygonal construction on a square plan, terminated by a bulb, a rare form in the region. The two corner buttresses are terminated at the upper part by a volute. The façade is preceded by a porch: columns of stone painted red support a strong roof structure. Under this porch is found the door. Stone framework with fine pilasters, entablature, central niche framed by volutes, spheres. This door is similar to churches of Spanish colonial style.
Nearby in the register
- Temple protestanttempleunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de Seigmasdolmenunder 1 mi
- Grotte du Mas-d'Azilsite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de Bidotdolmen1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.