Larroque-on-the OSI

Larroque-on-the OSI is a common French, located in the department of the Gers and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

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Church of Heux

Located on a planted hillock of beautiful trees where formerly the cemetery was, it served a hamlet of some houses scattered with the bottom of the hillock. It now lost this parochial function; however it is regularly used for the worship and, contrary to so much of small rural churches, it remains maintained well. Of difficult dating, one can advance for his parts oldest XIVe S. if not XIIIe S., given that the building is largely posterior for its greater part.

Internally, its plan is simple. It has a broad single nave finished by a flat bedside - a big room say-one - with only one vault with S., rectangular and which one reaches by a flattened arcade.

The nave itself is composed of three spans delimited by imbedded columns with carved capitals, which are decorated with foliages for two of them and at the same time with foliages and two busts of characters to the prominent head for a third. The columns are not carrying and the nave is covered with a skirting curved on the edges. This skirting continues with the top of the chorus that a surbased arch pressed on two pilasters separates from the nave. The church is enlightened with the NR. by arched windows, one in the nave, two in the chorus; with S. by two windows of the vault, curved and narrow. Two doors open with S.: the main door in the first span and the door of the sacristy in the chorus. The ground is covered stone slabs and brick; the chorus is elevated of a walk. The skirting and the walls of the nave and the chorus were entirely painted; it is about a work of art popular undoubtedly not going up in-on this side XIXe S., but free of all the commonplaces of the religious art of this century. In the chorus the ceiling shows eight angels, the hardly outlined body, surrounding the lamb divine and connected by streamers carrying the words of the “Sanctus”; the angels are pink and the white streamers on bottom of blue sky, the lamb is white on yellow sun bottom. One finds on the ceiling of the nave the representation of the sky with this time, in the center, a dark cross on the sun; the ceiling is bordered on the sides of streamers - there are no angels - tied between them with flowered bouquets; the whole into dominant white, pale blue, constant and brown blue. The concave repercussion of the ceiling on the walls is decorated, for its part, of a decoration of blind arcades painted brown, with two white flowers in each arcade. The walls of the nave are white, those of the blue chorus sky, all strewn with cross of brown color. The vault is also painted: with the ceiling, a gilded star registered in a circle of white clouds on bottom of blue sky bordered of a brown margin.

The high altar has a surmounted gate vault of a crucifix placed on a shelter made up of four simple supports and of a cover as a bâtière; it is accompanied by pretty candelabra. To the top of the high altar, a retable which one could date from XVIIe S. exposes in its center a fabric representing a Christ in cross; the fabric is framed of two Corinthian columns carrying an entablature with cornice and a curved pediment; two pot-with-flowers are installed on the projection which form the cornice plumb with the columns. Two fabrics representing each one a character out of episcopal dress respectively are laid out on the right and on the left of the two columns. The pulpit is decorated false incrustations and of marquetry losangées. Four old glosses with candles, including three with crystals, hang ceiling. The vault has a small retable of XVIIIe S. comprising a niche which shelters a Virgin with the blessing Child.

Outside doesn't the church have any more simplicity of plan which one saw, because it is integrated as a whole architectural? modest certainly? that it constitutes with various additional buildings. Indeed, large a emban extends to S. since the side O. vault to a wall largely located beyond the Western frontage from the church. This frontage is masked besides by a building barlong extending over all its width starting from the common wall with the emban; also it is announced more only by the wall-belfry, spouting out roofs, which surmounts it. The bedside, for its part, was seen joining the building of the presbytery which overflows it much towards S. and the sacristy occupies almost all the space located between the respective projections of the presbytery and the vault. This way, only the gouttereau NR. church is free of construction.

The emban is covered with a roof whose frame takes support: with the NR. on the church and, with its continuation, on the building which hiding place the frontage; with O. on the wall which closes it and with the E. on the vault; finally, with S. on wood posts sitting on a low wall stopped by the access to the main door. This one is curved and its mouldings - one of them has a broken drawing - form in their repercussion like barrels of posts equipped with high bases (XIVe S. or XVe S.). A stone bench lengthens against the wall on the left door. The wall O. emban is bored of a door and one notices there a blind arcade, at the same time broken and flattened. The ground, downwards (a walk) of outside, is covered large flagstones. The building which hiding place the frontage of the church just like has a Western wall with naked wall O. emban its wall NR. is with naked gouttereau of the nave. This building, stiffened by two buttresses on its short side NR., appears blind except for an increased loophole with O. and of another lengthened with the top of a rectangular door to the NR. One can think that it extended more towards S. before the realization from the emban and that the arcade, now blind, of the wall of this last corresponded then to his entry. The side NR. church is shouldered of three buttresses making following the two buttresses of the building. Few things to say old presbytery and sacristy, if not to insist on the seal of the first, a house barlongue giving on a delicious garden surrounded by walls and to point out the four square days whose the pinion of the second is dug.

The wall-belfry occupies all the width of the nave. It has two side projections and finishes in height by a rectangular solid mass to which one gave the shape of a sarcophagus and which carries a modern cross. It is bored of two bays with, on the face O., an external louver in lean-to building; on this same face, one sees, in lower part of bays, the starters of a roof disappeared like, towards the NR., two corbels and, towards S., a buttress. The opposed face, equipped also with a lean-to building, is arranged for the access to the bells: on the roof, at the base of the bell-tower, a shelter in the shape of bulb communicates, on the one hand, with the emban by a wood staircase going down against the wall S. from L `church, on the other hand, with a platform located at the back of two bays by a scale which on the three sides a lathing protects from wood.

The church and its dependences are built especially in large stones of size; however, the bell-tower presents a thicker hardcores and binder. The roofs are covered curved tiles; exception only the louver of the bell-tower and the bulbous shelter of access to the bells make, equipped with tiles punts. The church is covered with a roof with double slope and the building of frontage of a lean-to building going up until the base of the wall-belfry; the slope S. of the roof of the church, more developed, covers the emban and continues with a lean-to building which is connected to that of the building of frontage. The vault, the sacristy and the presbytery have also frames with double slope, but perpendicular laid out to the axis of the church.

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Common of Gers

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Larroque-on-the OSI on the site of the national geographical Institute
Larroque-on-the OSI on the site of INSEE
Larroque-on-the OSI on the site of Quid
Localization of Larroque-on-the OSI on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Larroque-on-the OSI on Mapquest

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