Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Saturnin
Blaignac, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le portail et les sculptures : classement par arrêté du 20 décembre 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/12/20 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Blaignac
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.55252, -0.05718
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083145
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 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église a été reconstruite mais a conservé sa porte romane à chapiteaux historiés, linteau couvert d'arabesques gravées, chrisme dans le tympan. Deux ou trois chapiteaux romans sont encastrés à l'intérieur de l'abside.
English translation
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History
The church was rebuilt but retained its Romanesque doorway with historiated capitals, lintel covered with engraved arabesques, Christogram in the tympanum. Two or three Romanesque capitals are embedded inside the apse.
Nearby in the register
- Église Sainte-Croixégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Frontéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Antoineéglise2 mi
- Monastère d'antonins et son moulinétablissement conventuel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.