Eglise Saint-Loubouer de Saint-Loubouer

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The church Saint-Loubouer is a former collegiate church located in the commune of Saint-Loubouer, in the French department of Landes.

Presentation: The town of the present-day commune of Saint-Loubouer was formed thanks to the influx of inhabitants around a Benedictine abbey established in the 10th century, on the end of a promontory. This abbey later became a simple collegiate, with an abbot and eight canons, which existed until the French Revolution of 1789.

Early church: It is not known today whether it is the abbey or collegiate that founded the early church, between the end of the 11th century and the beginning of the 12th century. This first church, placed for the protection of Saint Loubouer, has three naves without transept, is 41 meters long by 17 meters wide, the width of each side being 4 meters. Six large columns surmounted by foliar capitals have a rounded base of 2 meters fifty on the ground. The church's beautiful appearance earned him a choice for the holding of the States of the Lannes in 1443, marking Tursan's attachment to the kingdom of France: the Gascon lords swear on the cross fidelity to the king of France with refusal to provide food...