Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Gimont, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 12 décembre 1939
- Protection dates
- 1939/12/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Gimont
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.62663, 0.87626
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094804
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 ests du type des édifices de la région de Toulouse : nef unique, chapelles entre contreforts et chevet polygonal à sept pans avec chapelles rayonnantes. L'ensemble est couvert de voûtes sur croisées d'ogives. Au nord de la troisième travée de la nef s'élève un clocher imité de ceux de Saint-Sernin ou des Jacobins de Toulouse. L'édifice est entièrement construit en briques.
English translation
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History
The church is of the type of buildings in the Toulouse region: single nave, chapels between buttresses and polygonal chevet with seven sides with radiating chapels. The whole is covered with rib vaults. To the north of the third bay of the nave rises a bell tower imitated from those of Saint-Sernin or the Jacobins of Toulouse. The building is entirely constructed in brick.
Nearby in the register
- Hallehalleunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- chapelle Notre-Dame de Cahuzacchapelleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.