Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Archignac, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 29 novembre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/11/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Archignac
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.01101, 1.31266
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082321
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 1785 map "35 Sarlat." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane à une seule nef, à laquelle a été ajouté au 16e siècle un bas-côté sur croisées d'ogives. Clocher carré sur coupole. Choeur en cul de four à colonnettes et arcatures aveugles. Porche sur la face sud, en plein cintre, mouluré à cinq rangs d'arcs et de colonnettes. Chapiteaux romans sculptés dans le choeur et sous le clocher.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church with a single nave, to which was added in the 16th century an aisle on rib vaults. Square bell tower on a dome. Choir in semi-dome with columns and blind arcading. Porch on the south face, in round arch, moulded with five ranges of arcs and columns. Romanesque capitals sculpted in the choir and beneath the bell tower.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Lienséglise2 mi
- Croix dite de la Fauriecroix monumentale2 mi
- Église Saint-Julienéglise2 mi
- Donjonédifice fortifié2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.