Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Ours
Sainte-Orse, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église (cad. AB 344) : inscription par arrêté du 14 octobre 1970
- Protection dates
- 1970/10/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Orse
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.20403, 1.07529
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082882
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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
La construction de l'église remonte à la fin du 11e - 12e siècle. L'église possède un plan en croix latine, présentant depuis la façade orientale une nef de 30 m. de long, un transept (croisée et bras) de 22m. et un choeur avec abside polygonale à cinq branches. La façade occidentale est constituée d'un clocher-mur remonté à la fin du 19e siècle. Elle a connu différentes transformations : suppression des absidioles, construction d'une sacristie, ...
English translation
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History
The construction of the church dates from the end of the 11th - 12th century. The church has a Latin cross plan, presenting from the eastern façade a nave 30 m. long, a transept (crossing and arms) of 22 m. and a choir with polygonal apse with five branches. The western façade consists of a porch tower reconstructed at the end of the 19th century. It underwent various transformations: suppression of the minor apses, construction of a sacristy, ...
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.