Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Murles, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. C 30) : inscription par arrêté du 19 décembre 2016
- Protection dates
- 2016/12/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Murles
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.68289, 3.74163
- Mérimée reference
- PA34000117
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 1752 map "Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La paroisse Saint-Jean de Murles est citée dès le début du 12e siècle, et prend le vocable de Sainte-Croix au début du 17e siècle. L'édifice, caractéristique de la première période romane, est voûté en berceau décroissant, de la nef unique à deux travées vers la petite travée de choeur et le sanctuaire. L'abside est semi-circulaire, voûtée en cul-de-four et percée d'une baie axiale à double ressaut. Le petit clocher-arcade actuel a remplacé au 19e siècle un clocher à deux arcades.
English translation
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History
The parish of Saint-Jean de Murles is cited from the early 12th century, and takes the dedication of Sainte-Croix at the beginning of the 17th century. The building, characteristic of the first Romanesque period, is vaulted with a diminishing barrel vault, from the single nave with two bays towards the small choir bay and the sanctuary. The apse is semicircular, vaulted with a cul-de-four and pierced with an axial opening with double rebate. The small arcade bell tower currently in place replaced in the 19th century a bell tower with two arcades.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.