Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Jean de Las Monges
Escorneboeuf, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La chapelle (cad. B 2) : inscription par arrêté du 5 octobre 1981
- Protection dates
- 1981/10/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Escorneboeuf
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.64028, 0.88182
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094794
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église se trouve probablement sur l'emplacement de l'ancien couvent de religieuses, fondé au 11e siècle par Emervis d'Altejas. La nef se prolonge par une abside voûtée en cul de four, avec deux chapiteaux ornés d'animaux. Il semble que le mur occidental, surmonté d'un clocher mur, ait modifié l'édifice au 18e siècle.
English translation
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History
The church is probably located on the site of the former convent of religious women, founded in the 11th century by Emervis d'Altejas. The nave is prolonged by a barrel-vaulted apse, with two capitals ornamented with animals. It seems that the western wall, surmounted by a bellcote, modified the building in the 18th century.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Hallehalleunder 1 mi
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.