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Monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918, situé près de l'église contre le mur du presbytère

Banos, Landes, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Le monument aux morts en totalité (cad. A, domaine public, non cadastré, cf plan annexé à l'arrêté) : inscription par arrêté du 21 octobre 2014
Protection dates
2014/10/21 : inscrit MH
Type
monument aux morts
Main period of construction
1er quart 20e siècle
Dates
1921
Architect or builder
Descorps (sculpteur)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
placette du Chanoine-Descorps
Commune
Banos
Département
Landes
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
43.73700, -0.62411
Mérimée reference
PA40000081

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1856 map "Dept. Des Landes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Ce monument, adossé au mur du presbytère et symbolisant une chapelle funéraire, appartient à l’art naïf. Il fut élevé en 1921, avec les sculptures du chanoine Descorps, curé de Banos. L’oeuvre représente un soldat polychrome au repos encadré par deux colonnes surmontées d’un fronton triangulaire.

English translation

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This monument, set against the wall of the presbytery and symbolizing a funerary chapel, belongs to naïve art. It was erected in 1921, with sculptures by canon Descorps, curé of Banos. The work represents a polychrome soldier at rest framed by two columns surmounted by a triangular pediment.

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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