Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur
Chastanier, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 4 octobre 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/10/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Chastanier
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.72539, 3.75449
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103814
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1780 map "54 Saint-Flour." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise orientée, composée d'une nef de trois travées et d'un choeur terminé par un mur droit. Cette travée de choeur paraît avoir été ajoutée au 15e siècle, en remplacement de l'abside romane, de même que le porche. Du 12e siècle ne subsistent que deux colonnes engagées portant le premier doubleau et les gros murs percés de fenêtre au midi. La couverture est en lauze, vraisemblablement posée sur la voûte.
English translation
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History
Oriented church, composed of a nave of three bays and a choir terminated by a straight wall. This bay of choir appears to have been added in the 15th century, replacing the Romanesque apse, as did the porch. From the 12th century there remain only two engaged columns bearing the first transverse arch and the thick walls pierced by windows to the south. The roof is in lauze, presumably laid on the vault.