Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église d'Auban
Castelnavet, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise d'Auban (cad. C 50) : classement par arrêté du 5 juillet 1979
- Protection dates
- 1979/07/05 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Castelnavet
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.66684, 0.12167
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094758
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)IGN France — Géoportail
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1770 map "74 Auch." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Porche d'époque romane, à triple voussure, au tympan orné d'un chrisme. Le clocher mur est percé de deux baies. Nef unique, sans chapelles latérales. Abside semi-circulaire. C'est le parfait prototype de l'église rurale gersoise.
English translation
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History
Porch of Romanesque period, with triple voussure, in the tympanum ornamented with a chi-rho. The wall bell tower is pierced by two openings. Single nave, without side chapels. Semi-circular apse. It is the perfect prototype of the rural church of Gers.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Jacques de Fromentaségliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Laurentéglise3 mi
- Hospice Saint-Jacqueshospice3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.