Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Toujouse, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 610) : inscription par arrêté du 30 janvier 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/01/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Toujouse
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.83271, -0.17835
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094953
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1786 map "106 Roquefort, Mont-de-Marsan." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane à l'origine, qui servit sans doute de chapelle seigneuriale. Saccagé par les guerres de Religion en 1569, l'édifice reçut au 16e siècle d'importantes modifications. L'entrée se fait par un portail Renaissance au sud, sous un porche adossé au mur ouest qui soutient la face nord du clocher. La base de la tour détermine un grand porche gothique qui donnait accès à la cour du château. La tour du beffroi est ainsi séparée de l'église. La chapelle seigneuriale fut probablement jugée insuffisante pour la paroisse. Son enceinte fut développée en ajoutant un bas-côté qui communique avec la grande nef par deux arcades ogivales, réalisant la chapelle de la Vierge.
English translation
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History
Church Romanesque in origin, which served doubtless as a seigneurial chapel. Ravaged by the Wars of Religion in 1569, the edifice received important modifications in the 16th century. Entry is by a Renaissance portal to the south, beneath a porch set against the west wall which supports the north face of the bell tower. The base of the tower determines a large Gothic porch which gave access to the castle courtyard. The belfry tower is thus separated from the church. The seigneurial chapel was probably judged insufficient for the parish. Its enclosure was enlarged by adding an aisle which communicates with the large nave by two ogival arcades, creating the chapel of the Virgin.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.