Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Biarrotte, Landes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. C 62) : inscription par arrêté du 10 janvier 2008
- Protection dates
- 2008/01/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Biarrotte
- Département
- Landes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.55927, -1.27435
- Mérimée reference
- PA40000069
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 Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1771 map "139 Bayonne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice du 12e siècle, remanié à l'époque gothique. Son choeur abrite une arcature romane à cinq fenêtres, dont les voussures retombent sur de petites colonnettes à chapiteaux feuillagés ou composites. A l'ouest s'élève un porche adossé à un clocher mur flanqué d'une tourelle d'escalier.
English translation
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History
Building of the 12th century, modified in the Gothic period. Its choir contains a Romanesque arcading with five windows, whose voussures rest on small columns with foliate or composite capitals. To the west rises a porch adjoining a wall bell tower flanked by a stair turret.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.