Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Saint-Michel-de-Rivière
La Roche-Chalais, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La façade occidentale : inscription par arrêté du 16 juillet 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/07/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Roche-Chalais
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.13343, -0.02129
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082782
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 1714 map "Bourdelois du Perigord." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise d'origine romane, formée d'un rectangle allongé. L'épaisseur des murs indiquerait l'influence des Templiers, justifiée par le fait que le bourg relevait de la commanderie de Condat. Du 15e siècle, il reste dans le choeur des amorces de nervures ayant appartenu à une voûte détruite, et remplacée par un berceau surbaissé. Ruinée probablement dans les luttes religieuses qui furent particulièrement violentes dans cette région, l'église fut restaurée au 17e siècle. La porte latérale sud et le clocher arcade à fronton circulaire qui termine le pignon de la façade, portent la marque de cette époque. La façade occidentale est le seul vestige de l'ancien édifice roman. Elle est décorée d'un double rang d'arcatures aveugles que couronne un bandeau saillant.
English translation
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History
Church of Romanesque origin, formed of an elongated rectangle. The thickness of the walls would indicate the influence of the Templars, justified by the fact that the town was subject to the commandery of Condat. From the 15th century, there remain in the choir the beginnings of ribs that belonged to a destroyed vault, and replaced by a flattened barrel vault. Ruined probably in the religious struggles which were particularly violent in this region, the church was restored in the 17th century. The south lateral door and the arcade bell tower with circular pediment that terminates the gable of the façade, bear the mark of this period. The western façade is the only remnant of the old Romanesque building. It is decorated with a double row of blind arcatures crowned by a projecting band.