Notre-Dame (Aillas)

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Notre-Dame church in Aillas
inside view

The Notre-Dame Catholic Church in Aillas , a French parish in the Gironde department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , was built in the 12th century. The Romanesque church has been on the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique since 1896 .

The hall building , which belonged to the Knights Templar , has a transept and an apse with two additional absidioles. A bell tower rises above the crossing with high, round arched sound arcades on all sides . A south aisle was added in the 17th century. In the 19th and 20th In the 19th century, major changes took place in the church: the north aisle was built, the bell tower was changed and the nave was given its current vault .

Numerous capitals from the 12th century and frescoes from the 15th century have been preserved.

  • Capital with foliage

  • Capital with birds

  • Frescoes in the apse

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 87-88.

Web links

Commons : Notre-Dame (Aillas)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église Notre-Dame d'Aillas in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 44 ° 28 ′ 27.3 "  N , 0 ° 4 ′ 32.2"  W.