Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Temple
Le Collet-de-Dèze, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le temple (cad. C 1172) : inscription par arrêté du 13 septembre 1984
- Protection dates
- 1984/09/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- temple
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1646
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Le Collet-de-Dèze
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.24496, 3.92076
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103818
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La construction du temple a commencé en 1646, ce qui en fait le plus ancien temple de France. Les habitants en font donation à la marquise de Portes pour prouver leur soumission à la royauté. Celle-ci obtient de Louis XIV que le temple ne soit pas détruit. Durant la répression du protestantisme, le temple sert de dépôt d'armes aux troupes royales et tombe progressivement en ruine. Durant le 18e siècle, il sert de remise puis de grange. C'est le seul temple ayant survécu à la Révocation. A la Révolution, le temple est confisqué et vendu comme bien national. Les habitants le rachètent, le restaurent et le culte peut à nouveau y être célébré en 1803. L'édifice est en pierres maçonnées de taille irrégulière et couvert d'une charpente à solives apparentes soutenue par un grand arceau de pierres appareillées en plein cintre. L'accès se fait par un escalier à trois volées.
English translation
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History
Construction of the temple began in 1646, making it the oldest temple in France. The inhabitants donated it to the Marquise de Portes to prove their submission to the Crown. She obtained from Louis XIV that the temple should not be destroyed. During the suppression of Protestantism, the temple served as a weapons depot for the royal troops and progressively fell into ruin. During the 18th century, it served as a shed and then as a barn. It is the only temple to have survived the Revocation. At the Revolution, the temple was confiscated and sold as national property. The inhabitants repurchased it, restored it, and worship could again be celebrated there in 1803. The edifice is built of roughly dressed masonry stones and covered with a roof structure with exposed joists supported by a large arch of stones arranged in a round arch. Access is by a staircase of three flights.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.