Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Conat

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Saint John de Conat Church () is a Romanesque church in Conat, France, located in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales. This church presents a particularly neat apparatus, made of carefully carved ochre marble blocks. Other peculiarities compared to the Romanesque churches in the region are:

its orientation along a north-west/south-east axis rather than the usual west-east axis; interior chapels arranged in the thickness of the walls; a lintel engraved with a commemorative inscription dated the twelfth century, classified as a historical monument. The building has been listed as a historic monument since 1985, and the furniture includes two 17th century retables that are also listed as historical monuments. The church depends on the diocese of Perpignan-Elne and is dedicated to John the Baptist.

The village of Conat is located at the confluence of the El Callau River with its tributary the Urbanya River, in a valley of the eastern Pyrenees, in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales. A single narrow mountain road crosses the village, to connect Urbanya or Nohèdes in cul-de-sac upstream of one side...