Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean
Serverette, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Jean : classement par arrêté du 3 août 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/08/03 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Serverette
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.69292, 3.39567
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103935
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 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle importante par ses dimensions, ayant sans doute servi d'église paroissiale, construite au 12e siècle, avec nef unique voûtée en berceau légèrement brisé, agrandie vers le 15e siècle de quatre chapelles latérales. Le mur de façade portait un clocher abattu à la Révolution. La travée du choeur est dotée latéralement de deux arcades ou niches suffisamment profondes pour former de petites chapelles et constituer un croisillon. L'abside est à sept pans, ornés d'arcades. Les chapiteaux reproduisent des feuilles d'eau ou de refend. L'église s'ouvre par un portail roman, couvert d'une architrave surmontée d'un tympan nu et encadré par trois arcades plein cintre.
English translation
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History
Chapel important by its dimensions, having doubtless served as a parish church, built in the 12th century, with single nave vaulted in slightly pointed barrel vault, enlarged around the 15th century with four lateral chapels. The façade wall bore a bell tower struck down during the Revolution. The choir bay is furnished laterally with two arcades or niches deep enough to form small chapels and constitute a transverse arm. The apse is of seven faces, decorated with arcades. The capitals reproduce water leaves or rebated leaves. The church opens with a Romanesque portal, covered with an architrave surmounted by a bare tympanum and framed by three round arches.
Nearby in the register
- Croix en pierrecroix de cheminunder 1 mi
- Cité antiquesite archéologique2 mi
- château et domaine de Combetteschâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.