Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Sulpice
Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 106) : inscription par arrêté du 24 juin 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/06/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.46757, 0.50732
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082902
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 1779 map "70 Perigueux." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane au porche orné de huit colonnettes avec bandeaux sculptés (anges, démons hypogriffes). A l'intérieur, choeur roman à colonnettes. Le clocher carré à arcades repose sur une voûte hexagonale, et est soutenu par quatre piliers à chapiteaux romans décorés de personnages, animaux et entrelacs. Une chapelle latérale a été ajoutée.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church with a porch decorated with eight small columns with sculpted bands (angels, hypogryph demons). Inside, Romanesque choir with small columns. The square bell tower with arcades rests on a hexagonal vault, and is supported by four pillars with Romanesque capitals decorated with figures, animals and interlace. A lateral chapel was added.
Nearby in the register
- Château d'Aucorschâteau2 mi
- église Saint-Étienneéglise2 mi
- Grotte préhistorique dite de Fronsacsite archéologique2 mi
- Église Saint-Fiacreéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.