Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église des Carmes ou église Saint-Thomas-Becket
Figeac, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AD 374) : inscription par arrêté du 9 février 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/02/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place du 12-Mai
- Commune
- Figeac
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.61095, 2.02919
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125597
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 1781 map "16 Rodez." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise d'origine gothique, très remaniée à la fin du 19e siècle. L'édifice se compose d'une large nef dont les voûtes sur croisées d'ogive à liernes et tiercerons retombent sur des piles fasciculées. Elles ont été refaites au 19e siècle, ainsi que la façade ouest et la grande verrière orientale. La travée occidentale est flanquée au nord et au sud de deux chapelles latérales voûtées sur croisées d'ogive du 14e siècle. La chapelle latérale sud est cantonnée, à l'est, par la tour servant de clocher. Un bénitier en pierre repose sur un chapiteau roman provenant de l'église de Saint-Sauveur. L'église referme, au sud, l'ancien cloître du couvent.
English translation
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History
Church of Gothic origin, very heavily reworked in the late 19th century. The building comprises a wide nave whose vaults on rib vaults with liernes and tiercerons rest on clustered piers. These were remade in the 19th century, as were the west façade and the large east stained-glass window. The western bay is flanked to north and south by two lateral chapels vaulted on 14th-century rib vaults. The south lateral chapel is flanked, to the east, by the tower serving as bell tower. A stone holy water stoup rests on a Romanesque capital from the church of Saint-Sauveur. The church encloses to the south the former cloister of the convent.
Nearby in the register
- Hôpitalhôpitalunder 1 mi
- Maison gothiquemaisonunder 1 mi
- Remparts de la villefortification d'agglomérationunder 1 mi
- Maison médiévalemaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.