Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Lagarde, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AN 33) : inscription par arrêté du 18 octobre 1983
- Protection dates
- 1983/10/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Lagarde
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.96428, 0.55496
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094818
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 — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "73 Agen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petite église rurale à nef unique et chevet plat inséré dans le système défensif du village. La porte gothique est surmontée d'une tour carrée qui sert de clocher, dont la partie supérieure a été refaite au 19e siècle. Cette tour possède, sur trois faces, plusieurs archères cruciformes. Au mur pignon occidental, emban très abrité. Au sud, une petite chapelle a été édifiée au 19e siècle. A l'intérieur, cuve baptismale encastrée dans le mur et décorée de fleurs de lys.
English translation
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History
Small rural church with a single nave and flat chevet inserted into the defensive system of the village. The Gothic door is surmounted by a square tower which serves as a bell tower, whose upper part was remade in the 19th century. This tower possesses, on three faces, several cruciform arrow slits. At the western gable wall, very sheltered embrasure. To the south, a small chapel was built in the 19th century. Inside, baptismal font set into the wall and decorated with fleurs-de-lis.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Sainte-Madeleineéglise3 mi
- Château de Cadreilschâteau3 mi
- Église et cloîtreséglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.