Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Belcastel, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. A 391) : inscription par arrêté du 27 mai 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/05/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 18e siècle, 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1524, 1584
- Architect or builder
- Ceroni (décorateur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Belcastel
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.64914, 1.75519
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095488
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1706 map "Le Diocese de Toulouse" (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La chapelle de la travée médiane du sud de l'édifice porte la date de 1524. Celle de 1584 est gravée sur une pierre de la vis du clocher. L'édifice, inachevé, est orné de gypseries et couvert d'un plafond au 18e siècle. Au 19e, le chevet est entièrement reconstruit et l'édifice couvert de voûtes sur ogives, décorées par l'atelier Ceroni. Le clocher est une construction massive carrée, épaulée par quatre contreforts dont l'un, sur la face nord, devient tourelle d'escalier circulaire à partir du premier étage. Il se compose d'un rez-de-chaussée et d'un premier étage voûtés d'ogives, et d'un second étage renfermant les cloches. La construction n'a pas été achevée ou a été dérasée. Au niveau du second étage existait une galerie de circulation prise moitié sur l'épaisseur des murs, moitié sur le vide grâce à trois encorbellements continus. Cette galerie traverse les contreforts.
English translation
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History
The chapel of the central bay of the south of the building bears the date of 1524. That of 1584 is engraved on a stone of the bell tower's spiral stair. The building, unfinished, is ornamented with plasterwork and covered with a ceiling in the 18th century. In the 19th century, the chevet was entirely rebuilt and the building covered with rib vaults, decorated by the workshop Ceroni. The bell tower is a massive square construction, buttressed by four buttresses one of which, on the north face, becomes a circular staircase turret from the first storey onwards. It comprises a ground floor and a first storey vaulted with ogives, and a second storey containing the bells. The construction was not finished or has been levelled down. At the level of the second storey there existed a circulation gallery taken half on the thickness of the walls, half on the void thanks to three continuous corbels. This gallery crosses the buttresses.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.