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Église Saint-Maurice

Léguillac-de-Cercles, Dordogne, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
L'église en totalité (cad. C 223) : inscription par arrêté du 30 septembre 2013
Protection dates
2013/09/30 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle, 15e siècle, 3e quart 19e siècle
Dates
1862
Architect or builder
Vauthier (architecte)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Léguillac-de-Cercles
Département
Dordogne
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.39180, 0.51369
Mérimée reference
PA00082611

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Eglise essentiellement périgourdine, fortifiée au 15e siècle d'après les traces des corbeaux qui soutenaient le chemin de ronde. Le plan est composé d'une nef, d'un choeur sous le clocher et d'un sanctuaire. La nef est couverte de deux coupoles sur pendentifs, à clé gauchisante. Le départ du pendentif se fait sur l'extrados de l'arc. La première partie du sanctuaire est couverte d'un berceau brisé. Plus tard y a été adjoint un chevet circulaire voûté en cul de four. Le clocher appartient au type des clochers à arcatures aveugles superposées.

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Essentially Périgord church, fortified in the 15th century based on traces of corbels which supported the wall-walk. The plan consists of a nave, a choir under the bell tower and a sanctuary. The nave is covered with two domes on pendentives, with a warped keystone. The start of the pendentive is made on the extrados of the arch. The first part of the sanctuary is covered with a broken barrel vault. Later a circular chevet was added to it, vaulted in an apse vault. The bell tower belongs to the type of bell towers with superimposed blind arcades.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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