Et au milieu coule l'Adour

Abstract

Separated by the Adour river, the churches of the hamlet of Riviere (commune of Gee-Riviere) on the right bank and of Corneillan on top of the hillside overlooking the left bank, each one of them possesses a stoup hewn out of a reused architectural block : a base at Gee-Riviere, a capital at Corneillan. Yet it is not certain that those blocks belong both of them to the architectural programme that was developed for the late Antiquity aristocratic mansion on which the church of Gee-Riviere now stands. By thus enriching the architectural landscape of this area close to a traditional ford across the river Adour, the two Gersois blocks testify to the conditions of the settlement and evolution of Roman occupation.

Keywords

• Roman architecture
• aristocratic mansion
• late Antiquity
• Gers
• Adour