Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Sainte-Croix
Sauveterre, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. A 660) : inscription par arrêté du 31 juillet 2002
- Protection dates
- 2002/07/31 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Later work
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sauveterre
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.47410, 2.55353
- Mérimée reference
- PA81000020
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1675 map "Les Monts Pyrenées, ou sont remarqués les passages de France en Espagne / dressé sur les memoires les plus nouveaux par le Sr. Sanson" (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne chapelle castrale réutilisant en clocher une ancienne tour du site fortifié de Sauveterre. L'église est reconstruite au 18e siècle puis remaniée avec le château au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
Former castle chapel reusing in a bell tower an old tower of the fortified site of Sauveterre. The church is rebuilt in the 18th century then altered with the castle in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Château de Campanchâteau3 mi
- Château de Soult-Bergchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.