Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Canourgues
Les Junies, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Canourgues (cad. B 404) : inscription par arrêté du 11 juillet 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/07/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Canourgues
- Commune
- Les Junies
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.54755, 1.23828
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095114
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle de pèlerinage dont la fondation pourrait remonter à la fin du 12e siècle. Le pèlerinage était en vogue au début du 14e siècle et se maintint après la guerre de Cent ans. C'est une église romane de type rural, comportant une nef et une abside, sur plan carré, séparées par un arc triomphal. A l'aplomb de l'arc triomphal, le contrefort se prolonge extérieurement par un mur clocher à redens.
English translation
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History
Pilgrimage chapel whose foundation could date back to the end of the 12th century. The pilgrimage was in vogue in the early 14th century and was maintained after the Hundred Years' War. It is a rural Romanesque church, comprising a nave and an apse, on a square plan, separated by a triumphal arch. At the level of the triumphal arch, the buttress extends externally into a bell-tower wall with stepped offsets.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteau fortunder 1 mi
- Maison dite du Garric-Blancmaison1 mi
- Maisonmaison1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.