Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Matthieu
Orliac, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 28 mai 1951
- Protection dates
- 1951/05/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Orliac
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.71656, 1.06836
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082715
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise du 12e siècle, avec porche refait au 17e, surmonté d'un oculus. Au-dessus du porche, clocher à pignon triangulaire. Chevet plat à trois arcatures aveugles. Le choeur est plus élevé que la nef. L'église communique avec l'ancien presbytère qui possède un pigeonnier carré.
English translation
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History
Church of the 12th century, with porch remade in the 17th, surmounted by an oculus. Above the porch, bell tower with triangular gable. Flat chevet with three blind arcatures. The choir is higher than the nave. The church communicates with the former presbytery which possesses a square dovecote.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Maurice de Pratséglise2 mi
- Église Sainte-Foy-de-Belvèséglise2 mi
- Chartreuse du Breuildemeure3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.