Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Christophe
Champagnac-de-Belair, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Christophe : inscription par arrêté du 6 décembre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/12/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Champagnac-de-Belair
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.39365, 0.69853
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082462
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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise des 14e et 15e siècles, à une seule nef et trois travées sur croisées d'ogives, reposant sur des culs de lampe ornés de feuillages. A l'extérieur, tourelle d'escalier polygonale reposant sur une base carrée. Porte du 15e siècle en accolades ornées de choux frisés. Sur la face nord, importants arcs boutants évidés formant passage. Clocher moderne.
English translation
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History
Church of the 14th and 15th centuries, with a single nave and three bays on rib vaults, resting on sculptured corbels ornamented with foliage. On the exterior, polygonal staircase turret resting on a square base. 15th-century door with accolades ornamented with curled cabbage leaves. On the north face, substantial relieving arches forming a passage. Modern bell tower.
Nearby in the register
- église Saint-Étienneégliseunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de Peyre Levadedolmen2 mi
- Château de Vaugoubertchâteau2 mi
- Ruines de l'abbaye cistercienne de Boschaudabbaye3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.