Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame de la Purification
Preyssac-d'Excideuil, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 24) : inscription par arrêté du 5 janvier 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/01/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Preyssac-d'Excideuil
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.33744, 1.10292
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082774
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 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Clocher-mur du 13e siècle. Porche du 15e sur arc légèrement brisé avec colonnettes à chapiteaux sculptés. Le choeur devait se trouver sous un second clocher avec peut-être une coupole. Fenestrage flamboyant.
English translation
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History
Bell tower wall of the 13th century. Porch of the 15th century on a slightly pointed arch with small columns with sculptured capitals. The choir must have been situated beneath a second bell tower with perhaps a dome. Flamboyant fenestration.
Nearby in the register
- Tour des Charreauxédifice fortifié1 mi
- Maison du 18e sièclemaison3 mi
- Château d'Excideuilchâteau3 mi
- Église Saint-Thomaséglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.