Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Bazus, Haute-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 375) : inscription par arrêté du 29 décembre 1978
- Protection dates
- 1978/12/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bazus
- Département
- Haute-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.73561, 1.51676
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094286
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1706 map "Le Diocese de Toulouse" (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice du type des églises gothiques méridionales à nef unique précédée d'un clocher languedocien, accompagné d'une tourelle en poivrière. La voûte, à nervures gothiques, est décorée selon la tradition albigeoise de peintures en grisaille et or représentant des personnages pris dans des enroulements de rinceaux d'acanthe sur fond bleu. Le choeur, à trois pans coupés, est plaqué d'un décor stuqué et de bois sculpté à vocabulaire antiquisant.
English translation
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History
Building of the type of southern Gothic churches with a single nave preceded by a Languedoc bell tower, accompanied by a pepper-pot turret. The vault, with Gothic ribs, is decorated according to the Albigeois tradition with grisaille and gold paintings representing figures set within acanthus scroll ornaments on a blue background. The choir, with three chamfered angles, is faced with stuccoed decoration and carved wood with antique vocabulary.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Jeanchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptisteéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.