Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Bauzens
Ajat, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Bauzens : classement par arrêté du 25 août 1909
- Protection dates
- 1909/08/25 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Ajat
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.17667, 1.04237
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082316
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église se compose d'un sanctuaire à chevet plat, précédé d'une travée élargie voûtée d'une coupole, et d'une nef. La façade occidentale s'ouvre par un portail encadré sous un arc saillant, et surmonté de trois arcatures dont les archivoltes reposent sur des colonnettes monolithes. Deux des colonnettes présentent des chapiteaux sculptés.
English translation
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History
The church comprises a sanctuary with flat chevet, preceded by an enlarged bay vaulted with a cupola, and a nave. The western facade opens by a portal framed under a projecting arch, and surmounted by three arcatures whose archivolts rest on monolithic columnettes. Two of the columnettes present sculpted capitals.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.