Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Prieuré de Monbos
Thénac, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 319) : inscription par arrêté du 16 mai 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/05/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- prieuré
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Thénac
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.74366, 0.38640
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083016
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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
Le prieuré figure dans le Cartulaire de Cadouin, en 1135. L'église est à une seule nef, sans transept, avec clocher plat à deux ouvertures au-dessus d'un oculus. Abside voûtée en cul de four. Chapiteaux historiés.
English translation
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History
The priory is mentioned in the Cartulary of Cadouin in 1135. The church has a single nave, without transept, with flat bell tower with two openings above an oculus. Apse vaulted in cul-de-four. Historiated capitals.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Michel de Lestignac et cimetièreéglise2 mi
- Église Sainte-Innocenteéglise2 mi
- Château de Puyguilhemchâteau fort2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.