Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne abbaye
Faget-Abbatial, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du logis abbatial avec sa tour et de l'orangerie ; les murs d'enceinte avec leurs quatre portails ; les jardins (cad. A 240, 241, 242) : classement par arrêté du 11 juillet 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/07/11 : classé MH
- Type
- abbaye
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 1er quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1699
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Faget-Abbatial
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.50604, 0.69437
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094796
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 1770 map "74 Auch." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Monastère dont l'origine remonterait au 8e siècle, mentionné en 817 au concile d'Aix-la-Chapelle. Il fut abandonné au milieu du 18e siècle et il n'en reste plus que quelques bâtiments relativement récents dont la construction date de la fin du 17e siècle, de même qu'une ancienne tour réaménagée au 15e siècle.
English translation
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History
Monastery whose origins would date back to the 8th century, mentioned in 817 at the Council of Aix-la-Chapelle. It was abandoned in the middle of the 18th century and only relatively recent buildings remain, whose construction dates from the late 17th century, as does an old tower remodelled in the 15th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.