Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Gours, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 21 novembre 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/11/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Gours
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.99252, 0.02224
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083562
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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'abside et le chevet synthétisent l'architecture religieuse dans le Libournais à l'époque romane. Clocher à fronton triangulaire. Nef voûtée en arc de cloître plein cintre. Abside voûtée en cul de four. A l'extérieur, elle est ornée de sept arcatures séparées par des colonnes engagées montant jusqu'à la moulure d'entablement par des corbeaux sculptés.
English translation
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History
The apse and chevet epitomize religious architecture in the Libournais in the Romanesque period. Bell tower with triangular pediment. Nave vaulted in round-arch claister vault. Apse vaulted with a cul-de-four. On the exterior, it is decorated with seven arcatures separated by engaged columns rising to the entablature moulding by sculpted corbels.
Nearby in the register
- Domaine du château de Connezacchâteau1 mi
- Château et moulin d'Abzacchâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Hilaireéglise1 mi
- Moulin du Barragemoulin2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.