Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Comberanche
Comberanche-et-Epeluche, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Comberanche (cad. ZB 113) : inscription par arrêté du 11 mai 1981
- Protection dates
- 1981/05/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Comberanche-et-Epeluche
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.27518, 0.27877
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082493
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 1779 map "70 Perigueux." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La commanderie de Comberanche fut l'une des plus importantes d'Aquitaine. Après les croisades, Comberanche devint une étape importante pour les pèlerins de Compostelle. L'église est construite selon un plan rectangulaire, voûté en berceau brisé naissant sur une imposte chanfreinée. Choeur à chevet plat. La façade sud est renforcée de contreforts massifs datant de 1854.
English translation
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History
The commandery of Comberanche was one of the most important in Aquitaine. After the Crusades, Comberanche became an important stopping point for pilgrims of Compostella. The church is built according to a rectangular plan, vaulted in a broken barrel vault rising on a chamfered impost. Choir with flat chevet. The south façade is reinforced with massive buttresses dating from 1854.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionéglise1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-aux-Lienséglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre de Fayeéglise3 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Pauléglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.