Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Verlac
Aurelle-Verlac, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Verlac (cad. AI 106) : classement par arrêté du 17 octobre 1977
- Protection dates
- 1977/10/17 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Aurelle-Verlac
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.50605, 3.00794
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093959
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise donnée à l'abbaye de la Chaise-Dieu. Le baron d'Aurelle en était seigneur haut justicier. L'édifice appartient au style roman. Deux chapelles ajoutées postérieurement forment le transept et donnent à l'édifice la forme d'une croix latine. Le clocher carré a été construit au 18e siècle. Chevet pentagonal. Chapiteaux romans.
English translation
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History
Church given to the abbey of la Chaise-Dieu. The baron d'Aurelle was its high justiciar lord. The building belongs to the Romanesque style. Two chapels added subsequently form the transept and give the building the form of a Latin cross. The square bell tower was built in the 18th century. Pentagonal chevet. Romanesque capitals.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.