Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de la Nativité-de-la-Vierge
Massat, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AB 44) : inscription par arrêté du 11 décembre 1985
- Protection dates
- 1985/12/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 1er quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1700, 1725
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Massat
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.88967, 1.34729
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093818
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Vers 1700, construction d'une nouvelle église à l'emplacement de l'ancien édifice roman devenu trop petit. Le monument fut achevé en 1725. L'église était organisée en collégiale avec un chapitre de six chanoines dépendant de Saint-Lizier. Le clocher octogonal daterait, pour sa part, du 15e siècle. Sur chaque face de l'octogone s'ouvrent des fenêtres ogivales, celles du premier étage étant surmontées d'oeils-de-boeuf ovales, celle du second d'ouvertures losangiques. L'église se compose d'une nef pourvue de chapelles entre les contreforts. La façade est surmontée d'un grand arc en accolade et percée d'un portail reprenant les mêmes courbes que la façade.
English translation
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History
Around 1700, construction of a new church on the site of the former Romanesque building which had become too small. The monument was completed in 1725. The church was organized as a collegiate church with a chapter of six canons dependent on Saint-Lizier. The octagonal bell tower, for its part, would date from the 15th century. On each face of the octagon open Gothic windows, those of the first storey being surmounted by oval bull's-eye windows, those of the second by diamond-shaped openings. The church comprises a nave provided with chapels between the buttresses. The façade is surmounted by a large accolade arch and pierced by a portal repeating the same curves as the façade.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.