Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien prieuré de Tresseroux
Les Lèches, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle subsistante (cad. AK 53) : classement par arrêté du 16 décembre 1982
- Protection dates
- 1982/12/16 : classé MH
- Type
- prieuré
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Les Lèches
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.97759, 0.40077
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082610
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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
Les ruines sont les seuls restes d'un prieuré bénédictin dépendant de l'abbaye de Ligueux. L'appellation viendrait du nom de « Prieuré des Trois Soeurs » (Tres sorores). D'une certaine importante au 14e siècle, le prieuré fut vendu comme bien national en 1793. La chapelle est construite selon un plan rectangulaire à nef unique et à deux travées inégales. Des arcades aveugles en plein cintre animent les murs goutterots. Près du choeur, deux armoires munies de feuillures ont été creusées dans le mur. A l'extérieur, la façade ouest comprend le portail dont les deux voussures en plein cintre retombaient sur des colonnettes à chapiteaux, disparues. A l'angle sud-est, trois bandeaux chanfreinés soulignent les orifices d'accès à un pigeonnier. Chevet plat.
English translation
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History
The ruins are the only remaining vestiges of a Benedictine priory dependent on the abbey of Ligueux. The name is believed to derive from "Priory of the Three Sisters" (Tres sorores). Of considerable importance in the 14th century, the priory was sold as national property in 1793. The chapel is constructed according to a rectangular plan with a single nave and two unequal bays. Blind arcades with round arches animate the gutter walls. Near the choir, two cupboards fitted with rebates have been hollowed out in the wall. On the exterior, the west façade comprises the portal whose two round-arch voussoirs rested on small columns with capitals, now disappeared. At the south-east angle, three chamfered bands underline the openings providing access to a dovecote. Flat chevet.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.