Discover a 12th century church and its unique crypt

Name: Discover a 12th century church and its unique crypt
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Barthélémy

Visit St Bartholomew’s Church in Thegra, and learn more about this Gothic and Romanesque building that has spanned the centuries.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free.

About the location

Église Saint-Barthélémy

Place de la mairie, 46500 Thégra

Lot
Occitanie

Gothic and Romanesque style, Alamandi crest, transept, Valan crest, 16th century pulpit, crucified scene, 17th century Holy Trinity, wooden Virgin. The present church is the only one left of the three shrines of Thegra. The primitive church that probably existed in the 12th century under Saint Didier, the castle chapel and the large church. The latter has the shape of a Latin cross, oriented to the east, without vault, with rectangular bedside, the tower of the bell tower being at the crossing of the nave and the transept. The central bell tower is square, with eight openings. The crypt, vaulted and not lit, is located under the nave. The church was restored after the Hundred Years War but the original Romanesque parts remain: the crypt, the chapel of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the two stone altars of the twelfth century (that of the crypt and that of the chapel of Saint-Jean-Baptiste). By its walls, its windows, the base of a column, the church belongs to the secondary Romanesque era.