Notre-Dame (Gattigues)

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Notre-Dame, Gattigues
Notre-Dame, look at the choir

Notre-Dame is a Roman Catholic church in Gattigues, a district of Aigaliers in the French department of Gard .

description

The Church of Notre-Dame was built in the 12th century for a priory of the Benedictine Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu and has withstood all the destruction of medieval churches in the region during the Huguenot Wars .

In contrast to other Romanesque churches in the rural area of ​​the Gard department, the church is also modest in terms of dimensions, but as a priory church of the Benedictine order it has an elaborate three apse in the east as a choir closure. The church was built as a single-nave church on a cross-shaped floor plan. The main apse extends beyond the two side apses, which can only be entered from the middle apse. The transept arms have no access to the apses. Later, side rooms were added to the short, single-nave nave, giving the impression of a basilica today. During a renovation in the 1990s, murals were exposed.

literature

  • Pierre A. Clément: Églises romanes oubliées du bas Languedoc . Montpellier 1989, (with floor plan) p. 176ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eglise de Gattigues

Web links

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Coordinates: 44 ° 3 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 4 ° 19 ′ 21.6 ″  E