Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-André
Montbolo, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 171) : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/03/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montbolo
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.48484, 2.65491
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125502
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
4 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
Eglise construite au 12e siècle (consacrée en 1130) et fortifiée au 14e siècle par surélévation des murs gouttereaux munis de meurtrières. La mention la plus ancienne de la paroisse date de 993. La principale originalité de cet édifice réside dans son plan à absides jumelles couvertes en cul de four, logées dans un chevet rectangulaire. L'édifice est à nef unique couverte d'une voûte en berceau brisé. Il présente un plan oblong sans différenciation entre la nef et le choeur.
English translation
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History
Church built in the 12th century (consecrated in 1130) and fortified in the 14th century by raising the gutter walls equipped with loopholes. The earliest mention of the parish dates from 993. The principal originality of this building lies in its plan with twin apses covered in hemispherical vaults, housed in a rectangular chevet. The building has a single nave covered with a broken barrel vault. It presents an oblong plan without differentiation between the nave and the choir.
Nearby in the register
- Fort-les-Bainsfort1 mi
- Vestiges des thermes romainsétablissement thermal1 mi
- Ancien hôpital thermal des arméeshôpital1 mi
- Carreau miniermine2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.