Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Avit
Saint-Avit, Landes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AB 9) : inscription par arrêté du 23 décembre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/12/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 11e siècle, 12e siècle, 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Avit
- Département
- Landes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.94155, -0.44755
- Mérimée reference
- PA40000010
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise à chevet plat de la fin du 11e siècle. L'édifice se composait à l'origine d'une nef unique et d'une abside rectangulaire de la fin du 11e siècle, à laquelle fut accolée une absidiole méridionale à l'époque romane. Tour de défense élevée au-dessus du chevet au 14e ou au 15e siècle. Au 19e siècle, lors de travaux de rénovation et d'agrandissement, église fut réorientée avec création d'un choeur occidental.
English translation
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History
Church with flat chevet of the late 11th century. The building originally consisted of a single nave and a rectangular apse of the late 11th century, to which was added a southern absidiole in the Romanesque period. Defensive tower raised above the chevet in the 14th or 15th century. In the 19th century, during renovation and enlargement works, the church was reoriented with the creation of a western choir.