Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Saint-Jean-d'Eyraud, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Saint-Jean-d'Eyraud : inscription par arrêté du 5 octobre 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/10/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Jean-d'Eyraud
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.95447, 0.45252
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082848
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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
Petite église romane avec porche en plein cintre, clocher trapu sur coupole. Primitivement, l'édifice ne devait avoir qu'une nef. Au 15e siècle, ajout de deux chapelles de chaque côté. L'autel se trouve sous la coupole du clocher et se termine par une abside voûtée en cul de four.
English translation
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History
Small Romanesque church with round arch porch, squat bell tower on dome. Originally, the edifice must have had only a nave. In the 15th century, addition of two chapels on each side. The altar is found under the dome of the bell tower and is terminated by an apse vaulted with a cul-de-four.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.