Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Cérase
Simorre, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par liste de 1846
- Protection dates
- 1846 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 14e siècle
- Dates
- 1309
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Simorre
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.45044, 0.73560
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094932
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5 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
Eglise fortifiée sans doute bâtie à l'emplacement d'un édifice roman, conservant les reliques de Saint-Cérase. La construction en briques, de forme carrée, est cantonnée de tourelles et d'un donjon. Une tour octogonale surmonte l'ensemble entouré de créneaux, lui donnant un aspect de forteresse plus que d'église. Le portail sud, de style gothique, présente une archivolte à quatre ressauts, et s'orne de huit chapiteaux sculptés (chimères, hippocampes, basilics...). Vitraux des 14e et 16e siècles. Vestiges de fresques dans la sacristie.
English translation
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History
Fortified church no doubt built on the site of a Romanesque building, preserving the relics of Saint-Cérase. The construction in bricks, of square form, is cornered with turrets and a keep. An octagonal tower surmounts the whole surrounded by crenellations, giving it the aspect of a fortress rather than a church. The south portal, of Gothic style, presents an archivolte with four recesses, and is adorned with eight sculpted capitals (chimeras, seahorses, basilisks...). Stained glass windows of the 14th and 16th centuries. Remains of frescos in the sacristy.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.