Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Monfort, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 730) : classement par arrêté du 17 mars 1964
- Protection dates
- 1964/03/17 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Monfort
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.79474, 0.82254
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094868
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 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
La nef de quatre travées se termine par un choeur polygonal. Les voûtes ont été reconstruites en 1850. Les chapelles latérales sont logées entre les contreforts. Le clocher, situé à l'angle, repose sur une base carrée et s'élève en une tour hexagonale percée de fenêtres.
English translation
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History
The nave of four bays terminates in a polygonal choir. The vaults were reconstructed in 1850. The lateral chapels are housed between the buttresses. The bell tower, situated at the corner, rests on a square base and rises as a hexagonal tower pierced with windows.
Nearby in the register
- Château d'Esclignacchâteau1 mi
- Ancien châteauchâteau2 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Château de Lauretchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.