Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Germain de Rouffignac
Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Rouffignac : classement par arrêté du 22 mai 1900
- Protection dates
- 1900/05/22 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.04643, 0.97945
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082787
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice construit au début du 16ème siècle. Portail Renaissance de 1530. Clocher aménagé au 19ème siècle. L'église est largement restaurée entre 1880 et 1940. La particularité de l'édifice repose sur le traitement des piliers de la nef à colonnes engagées, ornées de moulurations torses aux gorges sculptées.
English translation
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History
Building constructed at the beginning of the 16th century. Renaissance portal of 1530. Bell tower arranged in the 19th century. The church is extensively restored between 1880 and 1940. The particularity of the building rests on the treatment of the pillars of the nave with engaged columns, ornamented with twisted mouldings with sculpted grooves.
Nearby in the register
- Château de l'Hermchâteau2 mi
- Grotte du Cro de Granville ornée de peintures et de gravures pariétalesgrotte ornée2 mi
- Château des Evêques et ancien cimetièrechâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.