Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-André
Montgiscard, Haute-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église : inscription par arrêté du 18 novembre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/11/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montgiscard
- Département
- Haute-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.45763, 1.57458
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094394
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 LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryIGN France — Géoportail
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
Eglise en briques composée d'un clocher-façade accosté de deux tourelles octogones dont l'une renferme l'escalier en spirale. Ce clocher comprend deux étages dont la séparation est marquée par un cordon de briques. Au faîte, des créneaux décoratifs surmontent un cordon de briques. L'abside pentagonale est voûtée sur croisée d'ogives avec liernes et tiercerons.
English translation
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History
Church in brick comprising a porch tower flanked by two octagonal turrets, one of which contains the spiral staircase. This bell tower comprises two storeys, the separation of which is marked by a string course of brick. At the ridge, decorative crenellations surmount a string course of brick. The pentagonal apse is vaulted with rib vault with liernes and tiercerons.
Nearby in the register
- Canal du Midi : Aqueduc-pont d'Aigues-Vivesaqueduc2 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Pauléglise2 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Égliseéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.