Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Luppé
Luppé-Violles, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Luppé (cad. A 377) : inscription par arrêté du 17 mai 1974
- Protection dates
- 1974/05/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Luppé-Violles
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.73994, -0.13333
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094848
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1771 map "107 Aire, Orthez." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petite église à nef unique et chevet plat. Deux chapelles ont été rajoutées au nord, formant collatéral. Clocher bulbe à l'ouest. Portail roman au sud, orné d'un chrisme, de chapiteaux sculptés, et précédé d'un porche daté 1877. L'église a été remaniée aux 15e et 17e siècles. Le mobilier en bois entourant l'autel et la chaire à prêcher datent du 18e siècle. Le décor a été peint au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
Small church with single nave and flat chevet. Two chapels were added to the north, forming an aisle. Bulbous bell tower to the west. Romanesque portal to the south, ornamented with a chi-rho, carved capitals, and preceded by a porch dated 1877. The church was altered in the 15th and 17th centuries. The wooden furnishings surrounding the altar and the preacher's pulpit date from the 18th century. The decoration was painted in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.