Lectures at the church of Orthez

Name: Lectures at the church of Orthez
Start: 2022-09-17T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Pierre de Moncade

Two lectures at Orthez Church.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 20:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

Registration

amissaintpierredorthez@gmail.com

Themes of the proposed conferences:

• Michel LENIAUD, President of the Scientific Council of the National Heritage Institute, former Director of the School of Charters, specialist in the reconstruction of churches, will speak on “Les enjeux de la conservation du patrimoine religieux en France”.

• Catherine PUTZ of the Association of Early Churches of Béarn, will speak about “The Problem of Conservation of Religious Heritage in Béarn”.

About the location

Église Saint-Pierre de Moncade

4 bis rue du Général Ducournau, 64300 Orthez

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The church choir seems to have been established for a monument of rather small proportions. It is flanked by a semi-hexagonal bedside. The aisles are finished, to the north and south, by chapels which could have constituted the arms of the transept in the primitive plan. The profiles of the ribs, the capitals, the bases of the columns, the keys of the vaults, the networks of the windows are characteristic of the beginning of the fourteenth century and the end of the thirteenth, seeming to indicate that the building was executed in several campaigns. After the construction of the choir, the arches on the side of the entrance of the latter remained waiting and the nave was taken over with greater proportions.
The north facade has only two narrow and high dormers, with traces of old doors, arches that suggest that there once existed leaned buildings. The bell tower, which disappeared at the beginning of the 19th century, was on this facade and against the walls also demolished. A fifth ba