Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Mallefougasse-Augès, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise, y compris la sacristie (cad. D 30) : inscription par arrêté du 14 octobre 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/10/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle
- Later work
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Mallefougasse-Augès
- Département
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.06612, 5.89813
- Mérimée reference
- PA04000012
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "Le Gouvernement General de Provence." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise mentionnée dès 1118 parmi les prieurés de l'abbaye bénédictine de Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. De cet édifice du premier art roman subsiste le choeur voûté en cul de four. Au milieu du 12e siècle, construction d'une tour-clocher et de la nef. Importants travaux de restauration au 17e siècle (date 1653 sur la façade). Décor intérieur peint au 18e et au 19e siècles.
English translation
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History
Church mentioned from 1118 among the priories of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. From this building of first Romanesque art survives the choir vaulted in an apse. In the middle of the 12th century, construction of a bell tower and the nave. Important restoration works in the 17th century (date 1653 on the façade). Interior decoration painted in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.