Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Rignac, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AD 84) : inscription par arrêté du 2 juin 1976
- Protection dates
- 1976/06/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Rignac
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.80518, 1.69503
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095194
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise fondée par les moines de Beaulieu. La nef unique ouvre sur un choeur pentagonal, et est voûtée d'ogives pénétrant directement dans les piliers. Deux chapelles forment le plan cruciforme et sont voûtées d'ogives tombant sur des culs de lampes. Clocher au nord.
English translation
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History
Church founded by the monks of Beaulieu. The single nave opens onto a pentagonal choir, and is vaulted with ribs penetrating directly into the pillars. Two chapels form the cruciform plan and are vaulted with ribs falling on corbels. Bell-tower to the north.
Nearby in the register
- Maison à tourellesmaisonunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de Pech de Grammontsite archéologique2 mi
- Dolmen des Plassous ou Las Aspesdolmen2 mi
- Ferme au lieu-dit Pissebasferme2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.