Small Romanesque chapel located in the town of Gaujac. You cannot visit it because the door is closed, but through the gate you can see the choir of the chapel.

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Francis GOLLÉ

November 3, 2024

What peace on this November 3rd! And the softness of the forms adds to this feeling of plenitude.

History: The Saint-Jean-de-Rozilhan chapel replaced, around the year 1000, a Christian oratory which had itself replaced a Roman temple erected on the major ancient road axis going from Nîmes to Alba-la-Romaine, in Helvie.
This South-North road axis passes 100 meters from the western facade of the chapel.

Many shards of medieval pottery lie among the Gallo-Roman witnesses along the rows of vines which border the northern facade of the chapel. Tombs in the shape of stone chests have been found nearby. They date from the 12th and 13th centuries.
But the primitive architecture of the chapel shows that it existed in the Carolingian era, perhaps before the 10th century. Then the community moved to the village of Gaujac where life was better, abandoning the building where they met to pray to Saint John, the village's patron saint, asking him for daily bread and continued health.

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Location: Gaujac, Nimes, Occitania, France

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