Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame
Vanxains, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Notre-Dame : classement par arrêté du 14 octobre 1908
- Protection dates
- 1908/10/14 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vanxains
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.21586, 0.28684
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083049
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice du 12e siècle avec sanctuaire à chevet plat. Le choeur est voûté d'une coupole sur pendentif. Toute cette partie de l'édifice est ornée d'arcs et de colonnes. La nef se termine à l'ouest par un portail et un clocher du 16e siècle. C'est sans doute vers la même époque que fut construit le bas-côté nord qui communique avec la nef romane, laissant apparente au-dessus des arcs d'ogive, une partie des fenêtres primitives.
English translation
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History
Building of the 12th century with sanctuary with flat chevet. The choir is vaulted with a dome on pendentives. All this part of the edifice is ornamented with arches and columns. The nave terminates to the west with a portal and a bell tower of the 16th century. It was probably around the same period that the northern aisle was constructed, which communicates with the Romanesque nave, leaving visible above the pointed arches a part of the original windows.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.