Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église paroissiale Saint-Michel, ancienne église Notre-Dame de Nazareth
Velleron, Vaucluse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. AS 158) : inscription par arrêté du 11 mars 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/03/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Velleron
- Département
- Vaucluse
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.95662, 5.03005
- Mérimée reference
- PA84000043
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Les Estats de Savoye et de Piemont (southwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
A l'origine, église prieurale dépendant de l'abbaye Saint-Eusèbe de Saignon. L'édifice comporte une nef remaniée à l'époque moderne, sept chapelles latérales et un choeur roman. Dispositif de trompes basses permettant de passer du plan carré au plan semi-circulaire.
English translation
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History
Originally, a priory church dependent on the abbey of Saint-Eusèbe de Saignon. The building comprises a nave remodelled in the modern period, seven lateral chapels and a Romanesque choir. Device of low squinches allowing passage from square plan to semi-circular plan.
Nearby in the register
- Deux boriescabane1 mi
- Monastère fortifié de Thouzon (ancien)établissement conventuel2 mi
- Égliseéglise3 mi
- Porte de l'Horlogeporte de ville3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.