Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Symphorien
Puylaroque, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Symphorien et presbytère (cad. E 284) : inscription par arrêté du 27 octobre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/10/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle, presbytère
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Puylaroque
- Département
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.23236, 1.68077
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095854
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1742 map "Composite: Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancien prieuré du diocèse de Cahors. En 1409, il est uni à la chartreuse de Cahors. La tradition fait remonter la fondation de l'église à l'année 1011 par les chevaliers du Temple. Une fontaine miraculeuse est placée au pied du rocher sur lequel est bâtie la chapelle. Un porche de construction postérieure donne accès à la chapelle et aux bâtiments attenants. La chapelle est sur plan cruciforme, avec contreforts à chaque angle. Du côté opposé à l'entrée se trouve un mur d'enceinte qui était renforcé de deux tours, l'une s'appuyant sur un des contreforts de l'église, l'autre placé à peu près au centre du mur.
English translation
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History
Former priory of the diocese of Cahors. In 1409, it is united with the charterhouse of Cahors. Tradition traces the foundation of the church to the year 1011 by the knights of the Temple. A miraculous spring is placed at the foot of the rock on which the chapel is built. A porch of later construction gives access to the chapel and the adjoining buildings. The chapel is on a cruciform plan, with buttresses at each corner. On the side opposite the entrance is found an enclosure wall which was reinforced with two towers, one resting on one of the buttresses of the church, the other placed approximately at the centre of the wall.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.