Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre-de-Monestiers
Saint-Gauzens, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Portail (cad. F 18) : classement par arrêté du 1er juillet 1960
- Protection dates
- 1960/07/01 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle, 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1543
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Gauzens
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.75184, 1.86069
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095635
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
3 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
Cette église dépendait de l'abbaye de Candeil, monastère bénédictin de l'ordre de Cîteaux, filiation de Clairvaux, fondé vers le milieu du 12e siècle. Le portail roman est le seul vestige de la construction primitive, avec les bases de la chapelle sud. Tout le reste de l'édifice a été reconstruit au 16e siècle et a subi de nouvelles restaurations au 19e. L'église se compose d'une nef unique à chevet plat et de deux chapelles formant croix latine. Le portail s'ouvre au sud de la nef. L'arc intérieur, en plein cintre, est précédé par deux rouleaux successifs, garnis de colonnettes. Chacune des arêtes saillantes des piédroits est mouluré d'un boudin. Il existe aussi quatre boudins successifs à chaque montant. Les corbeilles, liées aux astragales, sont sculptées (feuillages). Les moulurations de l'archivolte se composent de sept éléments concentriques. La polychromie est assurée par la couleur des pierres : grès jaunacé, grès rouges.
English translation
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History
This church was dependent on the abbey of Candeil, a Benedictine monastery of the order of Cîteaux, affiliated to Clairvaux, founded around the middle of the 12th century. The Romanesque portal is the only vestige of the primitive construction, together with the bases of the south chapel. All the rest of the building was rebuilt in the 16th century and underwent new restorations in the 19th. The church consists of a single nave with a flat chevet and two chapels forming a Latin cross. The portal opens to the south of the nave. The inner arch, in round arch form, is preceded by two successive rolls, furnished with small columns. Each of the salient edges of the jambs is moulded with a bead. There are also four successive beads at each mount. The corbels, linked to astragals, are sculptured (foliage). The mouldings of the archivolt consist of seven concentric elements. The polychromy is provided by the colour of the stones: yellowish sandstone, red sandstone.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.