Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Saint-Jean-du-Bouzet, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AC 121) : inscription par arrêté du 5 avril 1979
- Protection dates
- 1979/04/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Jean-du-Bouzet
- Département
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.98946, 0.87450
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095879
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise en grande partie construite à l'époque romane. Une abside semi-circulaire est précédée d'une travée délimitée par quatre colonnes engagées, surmontées de chapiteaux ornés de feuilles, chimères, oiseaux affrontés et chouettes. Nef de deux travées séparées par un pilier à forte saillie dont les ressauts multiples forment des dosserets.
English translation
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History
Church built in large part in the Romanesque period. A semi-circular apse is preceded by a bay delimited by four engaged columns, surmounted by capitals adorned with leaves, chimeras, confronted birds and owls. Nave of two bays separated by a pillar with strong projection whose multiple steps form dosserets.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.