Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Jumilhac-le-Petit
La Chapelle-Faucher, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Jumilhac-le-Petit : inscription par arrêté du 12 octobre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/10/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Chapelle-Faucher
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.38405, 0.76380
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082481
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petite église romane à une seule nef. La voûte de la nef a été remplacée par un faux plafond en bois. Le choeur est resté intact. Il comprend trois arcatures aveugles reposant sur des colonnes rondes à chapiteaux ornés de palmettes ou de motifs géométriques. Le clocher repose sur le choeur ovale. Les colonnes et les chapiteaux portent des traces de peinture.
English translation
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History
Small Romanesque church with a single nave. The vault of the nave has been replaced by a false wooden ceiling. The choir remains intact. It comprises three blind arcatures resting on round columns with capitals ornamented with palmettes or geometric motifs. The bell tower rests on the oval choir. The columns and capitals bear traces of paint.
Nearby in the register
- Prieuré de Notre-Dame de Puymartinprieuréunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Lienséglise2 mi
- Ruines du château de Bruzacchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.