Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Bout-du-Pont de Lherm

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Notre-Dame du Bout-du-Pont Chapel is a chapel in the Haute-Garonne department of France.

This building, made of cooked bricks topped by a small campanile, with a rectangular nave and a semi-circle choir with a ceiling frame, has the Romanesque shape of the early chapels of the region.

This chapel was probably in the first enclosure of the Lherm, outside the castrum (fortified place) at the time of the feudal castle of the 10th century. Placed at the end of the bridge (probably) ledge that allowed the passage of the moat surrounding the castle fort demolished in 1840, it was probably founded in the Middle Ages. It was then common to build a chapel at the end of a castle to receive serfs and untitled foreigners. The old pool filled in the middle of the 20th century was the last trace of these moats.

Important restorations in the 20th century: After war 39-45, the chapel was in great danger. Its painted ceiling, where it appears a calvary, is demolished to be replaced...