Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Christophe
Sauveterre-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 438) : inscription par arrêté du 3 février 1999
- Protection dates
- 1999/02/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 1ère moitié 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sauveterre-de-Rouergue
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.21990, 2.31905
- Mérimée reference
- PA12000020
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1742 map "Composite: Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église Saint-Christophe est l'ancienne collégiale de la bastide fondée en 1281 par Guillaume de Macon, sénéchal du Rouergue. L'église, bâtie à l'intérieur des fortifications, a été élevée à partir du 14e siècle. Elle est couverte d'une nef en berceau légèrement brisé sur laquelle s'ouvrent plusieurs chapelles latérales. Le clocher a été exhaussé au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
The church of Saint-Christophe is the former collegiate church of the bastide founded in 1281 by Guillaume de Macon, seneschal of Rouergue. The church, built inside the fortifications, was erected from the 14th century onwards. It is covered with a slightly broken barrel vault nave on which several side chapels open. The bell tower was heightened in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.