Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Loup
Marsa, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Clocher : inscription par arrêté du 29 novembre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/11/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Marsa
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.82214, 2.15524
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102761
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(23) Cataloniae." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette église comptait parmi les dépendances de l'abbaye bénédictine de Joucou, fondée en 873. Elle est citée à partir de 1208. A partir de 1318, les fruits décimaux de Joucou avaient été unis au chapitre de Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet. A partir de 1459, ce chapitre devient collateur de la cure. L'église primitive, à une nef sans chapelles, avait une abside demi-circulaire ornée de petits contreforts qui paraissent être des lesennes ayant supporté une arcature lombarde. Les murs furent surélevés, ce qui fit disparaître cette arcature, et munis d'archères, probablement au 13e siècle. C'était donc une église fortifiée. Le clocher a probablement été construit au 17e siècle. Elevé sur le mur de fond, le clocher-mur est à cinq baies, superposées en trois étages. Chaque étage est accosté par deux petits pinacles à boules dont les supports quadrangulaires sont posés de biais. Le pignon est cintré et surmonté d'une boule dans laquelle est fichée une croix en fer supportant un coq. Les deux chapelles datent du 19e siècle, ainsi que les fonts baptismaux, la sacristie et le porche.
English translation
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History
This church was among the dependencies of the Benedictine abbey of Joucou, founded in 873. It is cited from 1208 onwards. From 1318 onwards, the tithe produce of Joucou had been united to the chapter of Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet. From 1459 onwards, this chapter becomes collator of the cure. The primitive church, with a single nave without chapels, had a semi-circular apse adorned with small buttresses which appear to be lesenes having supported a Lombard arcature. The walls were raised, which caused this arcature to disappear, and fitted with arrow-slits, probably in the 13th century. It was therefore a fortified church. The bell tower was probably built in the 17th century. Raised on the rear wall, the bell-wall has five openings, superimposed over three storeys. Each storey is flanked by two small pinacles with balls whose quadrangular supports are placed diagonally. The gable is arched and surmounted by a ball into which is fixed an iron cross supporting a weathercock. The two chapels date from the 19th century, as do the baptismal fonts, the sacristy and the porch.