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Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste

Siest, Landes, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
L'église en totalité (cad. B 39) : inscription par arrêté du 15 janvier 2008
Protection dates
2008/10/15 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle, 13e siècle, 14e siècle
Later work
15e siècle, 16e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Siest
Département
Landes
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
43.64925, -1.12673
Mérimée reference
PA40000071

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1771 map "139 Bayonne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Edifice dont le clocher porche occidental conduit à une nef à un vaisseau ouvrant sur un choeur inscrit dans une abside semi-circulaire. D'origine et de plan roman, l'édifice eut un choeur couvert d'une voûte d'ogives au 13e siècle. La porte de la nef, avec son arc brisé trilobé, appartient au 14e siècle. Le clocher porche, à puissants contreforts angulaires, semble dater du 15e ou 16e siècle.

English translation

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Building whose western porch tower leads to a nave with a single vessel opening onto a choir inscribed in a semi-circular apse. Of Romanesque origin and plan, the building had a choir covered with a rib vault in the 13th century. The door of the nave, with its trilobed pointed arch, belongs to the 14th century. The porch tower, with powerful angular buttresses, appears to date from the 15th or 16th century.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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