Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Saint-Léon, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 21 décembre 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/12/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Léon
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.76162, -0.27845
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083759
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
Eglise de plan rectangulaire à trois travées, celle de l'est étant affectée au sanctuaire. Chaque travée comportait une voûte d'ogives, liernes et tiercerons. Seule la voûte Est est conservée.
English translation
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History
Church of rectangular plan with three bays, the eastern one being assigned to the sanctuary. Each bay had a rib vault with liernes and tiercerons. Only the Eastern vault is preserved.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines de l'église de Montarouchéglise1 mi
- Château de Châteauneufchâteau1 mi
- Croix du cimetièrecroix de cimetière1 mi
- Église Saint-Rochéglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.