Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame
Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Notre-Dame (cad. AB 352) : inscription par arrêté du 6 mars 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/03/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Arreau
- Département
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.90375, 0.36056
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095319
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1842 map "64. Haute Pyrenees. Tarbes (Guienne & Gascogne)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise d'origine romane (plan, clocher et chrisme) à collatéraux gothiques. Pendant des siècles, cette église fut la capitale de la vallée d'Aure. L'église D'ancizan, qui lui disputa ce rôle, fut démolie au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
Church of Romanesque origin (plan, bell tower and chi-rho) with Gothic side aisles. For centuries, this church was the capital of the Aure valley. The church of D'ancizan, which disputed this role with it, was demolished in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 16e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Exupèreégliseunder 1 mi
- Maison de Saint-Exupèremaisonunder 1 mi
- Château de Camon ou Château des Nesteschâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.