Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Saint-Créac, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise avec le mur d'enceinte de son cimetière, à l'exclusion des peintures murales déjà classées (cad. ZH 39) : inscription par arrêté du 22 mai 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/05/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Créac
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.92159, 0.80245
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135705
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "73 Agen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église dépendait d'une ancienne commanderie de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem. Eglise du 12e siècle, ravagée pendant la guerre de Cent Ans, relevée aux 15e et 16e siècles (chevet roman orné de peintures murales du 15e siècle). Grande campagne de restauration à partir de 1832. Peintures murales restaurées, voire refaites, par Toussaint Desbeaux en 1863.
English translation
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History
The church was dependent on an old commandery of Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem. Church of the 12th century, ravaged during the Hundred Years' War, rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries (romanesque chevet adorned with wall paintings of the 15th century). Large campaign of restoration from 1832 onwards. Wall paintings restored, even remade, by Toussaint Desbeaux in 1863.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Château de Gramontchâteau2 mi
- Pigeonnierpigeonnier2 mi
- Halle et Hôtel de villehalle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.