Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Villesèque, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. F 49) : inscription par arrêté du 11 octobre 1963
- Protection dates
- 1963/10/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Villesèque
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.39160, 1.31566
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095284
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 1628 map "Potamographie de Garone et des Fleuves qui Rendent Dedans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Nef à deux travées dont celle occidentale est flanquée, à son angle nord-ouest, d'une tourelle d'escalier à vis extérieurement polygonale, donnant accès au comble. La travée orientale est terminée par une abside à trois pans. Deux chapelles rectangulaires, formant bras de transept, s'ouvrent sur cette travée. La porte d'entrée est en plein cintre, à bossages en pointe de diamant, abritée sous un porche en charpente. Le clocher-arcade à deux baies est probablement de la même époque que l'église, mais sa toiture est moderne.
English translation
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History
Nave with two bays, the western one being flanked, at its north-west angle, by a spiral staircase turret externally polygonal, giving access to the roof space. The eastern bay is terminated by a three-sided chevet. Two rectangular chapels, forming transept arms, open onto this bay. The entrance door is in round arch, with diamond-point rustication, sheltered under a timber porch. The bell tower arcade with two openings is probably from the same period as the church, but its roof is modern.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.