Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Saint-Léger de Vignague
Sauveterre-de-Guyenne, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Saint-Léger de Vignague : inscription par arrêté du 5 octobre 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/10/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sauveterre-de-Guyenne
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.69902, -0.05084
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083835
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 1766 map "71 Bergerac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église était primitivement plus étendue. Il n'en reste plus que le chevet qui comprend une abside et un choeur, celui-ci plus large et couvert d'une coupole dont la calotte est découronnée.
English translation
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History
The church was originally more extensive. Only the chevet remains, which comprises an apse and a choir, the latter wider and covered with a cupola whose calotte is uncapped.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien château de Basgéranchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église de Saint-Romain de Vignagueéglise2 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise2 mi
- Anciennes portes de la villeporte de ville2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.