Church of Saint Cecilia in Cos

The church of Sainte-Cécile de Cos (Catalan: Santa Cecília de Cos or Santa Cecília de Coç) is a pre-Romanesque and Romanesque church built between the 9th and 11th centuries in Le Tech, in the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales. Sainte-Cécile de Cos is a small, disused rural chapel. It has twelve meters long and is built on a simple plan: a rectangular nave extended to the east by a flat apse, all lit by a few narrow, single-splayed windows. Devoid of any furnishings, its ruins were restored in the 20th century. The history of Sainte-Cécile began in the 9th century under the patronage of Saint Mary, when it became a possession of the abbey of Sainte-Marie d'Arles-sur-Tech. As Cos' territory grew, it was enlarged and embellished, and became a parish church in 1159. This status was lost around 1600, and the chapel was gradually abandoned. It was looted during the Roussillon war (late 18th century). By the 1990s, as it fell into disuse and ruin, its walls were raised and a concrete vault erected to protect it.

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