Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Orens
Dolmayrac, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le choeur : inscription par arrêté du 22 février 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/02/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Dolmayrac
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.36344, 0.58877
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084104
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "72 Castillonez, Velleneuve, La Reole." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église se compose d'une nef et d'un chevet pentagonal. Les voûtes en grandes croisées d'ogives recouvrent deux travées. Un arc triomphal, orné de moulures prismatiques, forme la séparation de la nef et du choeur. La chapelle ou galerie sud est une adjonction. Le choeur est voûté d'ogives avec liernes et tiercerons formant une étoile. Les branches d'ogives retombent sur des culs de lampe ornés (crocodile attaché ; clerc chevauchant un porc).
English translation
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History
The church comprises a nave and a pentagonal chevet. The vaults with large rib vaults cover two bays. A triumphal arch, decorated with prismatic mouldings, forms the separation of the nave and the choir. The chapel or south gallery is an addition. The choir is vaulted with ribs with liernes and tiercerons forming a star. The branches of the ribs rest on decorated corbels (crocodile in chains; cleric riding a pig).
Nearby in the register
- Ancien châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Cyprienégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de Tombeboucchâteau2 mi
- Ancien prieuré des Bénédictins de Sainte-Livradeprieuré2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.