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The Pondaurat Presbytery is an 18th-century Catholic religious building in the department of Gironde, in the commune of Pondaurat. It is adjacent to the southwest of Saint-Antoine Church, in the centre of the village, along the Bassanne River and the D12 departmental road. This presbytery, inscribed in historical monuments since 1990 for its facades and roofs, illustrates the rural religious architecture of this period.

The presbytery is part of the history of the monastery-hospital of Pondaurat, founded by the order of Saint-Antoine in the 11th century to treat skin diseases. This monastery, placed on a road of Compostela, was destroyed in 1577 by the Huguenots, then rebuilt in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. After the removal of the Antonins in 1776, the site came to the order of Malta and was sold as national property in 1790. The commune bought some of the buildings, turning the old chapel into a parish church and a building into a presbytery.

The building was extensively protected in 2016, with the inscription of the former presbytery in its entirety. Today, there remains a testimony of the religious and architectural history of the Gironde, linked to both medieval pilgrimages and post-revolutionary parish organization.

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