Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Aulon, Haute-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle, 14e siècle, 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1566
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Aulon
- Département
- Haute-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.19082, 0.81921
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094263
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1771 map "75 Tarbes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise bénédictine du 11e siècle, agrandie au 12e. Clocher du 14e siècle. Restaurations au 18e siècle. Transformations intérieures en 1898. L'édifice présente trois nefs avec un choeur sans abside, terminé par un mur pignon percé d'une baie romane géminée. Chapiteaux et tailloirs sculptés. L'entrée se fait par une porte Renaissance datée de 1566. Un clocher octogonal de style toulousain (15e siècle) est dressé sur la troisième travée de la nef, soutenu par quatre piliers.
English translation
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History
Benedictine church of the 11th century, enlarged in the 12th. Bell tower of the 14th century. Restorations in the 18th century. Interior transformations in 1898. The building presents three naves with a chancel without apse, terminated by a gable wall pierced with a twin Romanesque opening. Sculpted capitals and abaci. The entrance is by a Renaissance door dated 1566. An octagonal bell tower of Toulousain style (15th century) is raised on the third bay of the nave, supported by four pillars.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.