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Ancienne église de Saint-Gayrand

Grateloup-Saint-Gayrand, Lot-et-Garonne, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Ancienne église (cad. ZE 27) : inscription par arrêté du 19 avril 1996
Protection dates
1996/04/19 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle, 15e siècle, 1ère moitié 16e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Grateloup-Saint-Gayrand
Département
Lot-et-Garonne
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
44.40581, 0.39663
Mérimée reference
PA47000013

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "72 Castillonez, Velleneuve, La Reole." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Eglise du 12e siècle, agrandie au 15e siècle et au début du 16e siècle. Elle a perdu son couvrement au cours des guerres de Religion. Elle a été fermée au public en 1895 (déclarée très délabrée dès 1857). L'édifice se compose d'une nef rectangulaire et d'une travée de choeur avec deux chapelles latérales, et un chevet en abside à pans coupés. Accotée à la partie ouest du mur nord de la nef, se dresse une tour clocher carrée avec sa tour d'escalier. Le pignon ouest est l'ancien clocher-mur à deux pans de l'édifice originel. Côté sud s'ouvre un portail gothique surmonté d'une baie à remplage flamboyant. A l'intérieur, les arcs prennent naissance sur des culots sculptés (Vierge à l'Enfant, dragon, ange, feuilles, Christ tenant un globe...).

English translation

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Church of the 12th century, enlarged in the 15th century and at the beginning of the 16th century. It lost its roof covering in the course of the Wars of Religion. It was closed to the public in 1895 (declared very dilapidated as early as 1857). The building consists of a rectangular nave and a bay of choir with two lateral chapels, and a chevet in apse with cut pans. Attached to the western part of the north wall of the nave, stands a square bell tower with its staircase tower. The western gable is the old two-pan bell wall of the original building. On the south side opens a Gothic portal surmounted by an opening with flamboyant tracery. Inside, the arches spring from sculpted corbels (Virgin and Child, dragon, angel, leaves, Christ holding a globe...).

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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