Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Caprais
Saint-Capraise-d'Eymet, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le choeur et la travée portant le clocher (cad. A 833) : inscription par arrêté du 27 septembre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/09/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Capraise-d'Eymet
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.70889, 0.50409
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082811
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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 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane à coupole et chevet arrondi. Le clocher sur la coupole a disparu, remplacé par un clocher moderne situé à l'entrée de l'église. La nef a été refaite sur croisées d'ogives. La sacristie a été accolée au choeur dont elle épouse la forme, et se termine en carré. Le choeur, très haut, est voûté en cul de four à six colonnes romanes à chapiteaux ornés (anges, cavalier sur un cheval à tête humaine...). Les piliers de la coupole sont également sculptés.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church with dome and rounded chevet. The bell tower on the dome has disappeared, replaced by a modern bell tower situated at the entrance of the church. The nave was remade with rib vaults. The sacristy was attached to the choir whose form it follows, and ends in a square. The choir, very high, is vaulted in a cul-de-four with six Romanesque columns with decorated capitals (angels, horseman on a horse with a human head...). The pillars of the dome are also carved.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.