Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Sainte-Croix
Alzen, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. A 388) : inscription par arrêté du 11 décembre 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/12/11 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 18e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1732
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Alzen
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.99266, 1.46927
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135427
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 1675 map "Les Monts Pyrenées, ou sont remarqués les passages de France en Espagne / dressé sur les memoires les plus nouveaux par le Sr. Sanson" (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice d'origine romane, incendié vers 1624 par les protestants, réédifié au 18e siècle (une pierre porte la date 1732) , restauré au 19e siècle. La chapelle était liée au château des barons d'Alzen, aujourd'hui disparu.
English translation
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History
Building of Romanesque origin, burned by Protestants around 1624, rebuilt in the 18th century (a stone bears the date 1732), restored in the 19th century. The chapel was linked to the castle of the barons d'Alzen, now disappeared.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.