Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines de l'église de Saint-Priest-de-Mareuil
Mareuil, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Saint-Priest-de-Mareuil (ruines) : inscription par arrêté du 6 décembre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/12/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Mareuil
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.45571, 0.43934
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082631
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
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
Petite église romane dont le choeur arrondi comporte deux rangées d'arcatures et cinq colonnes engagées. Au-dessous, cinq arcatures en plein cintre. Escalier menant au clocher récent. Porche en plein cintre à plusieurs arcs, le dernier étant souligné de pointes de diamant.
English translation
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History
Small Romanesque church whose rounded choir comprises two rows of arcatures and five engaged columns. Below, five arcatures in round arch. Staircase leading to the recent bell tower. Porch in round arch with several arcs, the last being underlined with diamond points.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Mareuilchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église de Saint-Pardouxéglise1 mi
- Château de Beauregardchâteau2 mi
- Château de Beaulieuchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.