Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Juste-et-Sainte-Ruffine
Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 14 septembre 1921
- Protection dates
- 1921/09/14 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1245, 1648
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.40459, 2.47881
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104100
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1662 map "Comitatus Ruscinonis, vulgo Rousillon, in quo Episcopatus Helenensis, Gallicè Evesché d'Elne ou de Perpignan / [Joan Blaeu]" (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La première église fut consacrée en 982. Elle fut remplacée par un nouvel édifice consacré en 1245 et agrandi en 1648. Le clocher du 13e siècle servait de tour de défense, l'église ayant toujours été fortifiée.
English translation
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History
The first church was consecrated in 982. It was replaced by a new edifice consecrated in 1245 and enlarged in 1648. The 13th-century bell tower served as a defensive tower, the church having always been fortified.
Nearby in the register
- Rempartsenceinteunder 1 mi
- Porte d'Espagneporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Pont Sainte-Luciepontunder 1 mi
- Fort Lagardefortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.