Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Bénac, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (à l'exclusion du clocher isolé moderne) (cad. C 90) : inscription par arrêté du 20 juillet 1972
- Protection dates
- 1972/07/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bénac
- Département
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.15397, 0.02520
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095347
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 1771 map "75 Tarbes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise bâtie aussitôt après la création du prieuré, au 11e siècle. Elle est construite sur un plan en croix latine du type des édifices bénédictins. Après les guerres de Religion, des Protestants restaurent l'église. Décor apporté aux 17e et 18e siècles.
English translation
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History
Church built immediately after the creation of the priory, in the 11th century. It is constructed on a Latin cross plan of the type of Benedictine buildings. After the Wars of Religion, Protestants restored the church. Decoration brought in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.