Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Archevêché (ancien)
Auch, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Ancien archevêché : inscription par arrêté du 22 mars 1930 ; Jardin entourant l'ancien archevêché : inscription par arrêté du 30 novembre 1944
- Protection dates
- 1930/03/22 : inscrit MH, 1944/11/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- archevêché
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Commune
- Auch
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.64640, 0.58706
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094700
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancien palais archiépiscopal datant du 18e siècle, dont une grande partie des façades a été refaite au 19e. La façade sur cour est ornée de pilastres corinthiens. Dans les sous-sols, chapelle due à Monseigneur Jean Flandrin (1378-1390) et un fragment de salle capitulaire romane. L'intérieur de l'édifice, sous-sol, rez-de-chaussée et premier étage, ont été aménagés pour recevoir des bureaux. Le grand salon de réception et les appartements du préfet datent du 18e siècle. L'édifice est entouré d'un jardin dominant la vallée du Gers.
English translation
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History
Former archiepiscopal palace dating from the 18th century, much of whose facades were remade in the 19th. The facade onto the courtyard is decorated with Corinthian pilasters. In the basements, chapel due to Bishop Jean Flandrin (1378-1390) and a fragment of a Romanesque chapter house. The interior of the building, basement, ground floor and first floor, have been arranged to house offices. The great reception hall and the prefect's apartments date from the 18th century. The building is surrounded by a garden overlooking the Gers valley.
Nearby in the register
- Tour du Sénéchal ou d'Armagnacensemble cathédralunder 1 mi
- Cathédrale Sainte-Mariecathédraleunder 1 mi
- Escalier monumentalescalier indépendantunder 1 mi
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.