Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église paroissiale Saint-Jean
Murviel-lès-Béziers, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église paroissiale (cad. AC 317) : inscription par arrêté du 5 juillet 2006
- Protection dates
- 2006/07/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Murviel-lès-Béziers
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.43995, 3.14396
- Mérimée reference
- PA34000059
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "57. Lodeve." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne chapelle castrale dont l'architecture garde trace de son évolution, notamment le choeur de 1423 et la chapelle du début du 16e siècle, à voûtes d'ogives nervurées à liernes et tiercerons. Après les guerres de Religion, le voûtement de la nef, auparavant charpentée, a été refait.
English translation
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History
Former castle chapel whose architecture bears trace of its evolution, notably the choir of 1423 and the chapel of the early 16th century, with ribs and tiercerons rib vaults. After the Wars of Religion, the vaulting of the nave, previously of timber structure, was remade.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines de l'église de Saint-Vincent de Savignacéglise2 mi
- Château de Savignac-le-Hautchâteau2 mi
- Châteauchâteau3 mi
- Égliseéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.