Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Orens
Larreule, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. C 193) : inscription par arrêté du 26 août 1994
- Protection dates
- 1994/08/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Larreule
- Département
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.44541, 0.01690
- Mérimée reference
- PA00132679
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 1770 map "74 Auch." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Témoignage de la grandeur de l'abbaye bénédictine existant depuis le 11e siècle. Eglise du 11e siècle, voûtée au 12e siècle. Au début du 19e siècle, bâtiments claustraux détruits et vestiges du cloître cédés à un musée américain.
English translation
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History
Testimony to the grandeur of the Benedictine abbey existing since the 11th century. Church of the 11th century, vaulted in the 12th century. In the early 19th century, claustral buildings destroyed and remains of the cloister ceded to an American museum.
Nearby in the register
- Villa « Maïtena »villa2 mi
- Musée archéologique de Maubourguetmusée2 mi
- Église de l'Assomptionéglise2 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.