Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean de Cornac
Saint-Paul-d'Espis, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Cornac (cad. A 799) : inscription par arrêté du 23 avril 1979
- Protection dates
- 1979/04/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 14e siècle, 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1526, 1545
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Paul-d'Espis
- Département
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.14613, 1.00516
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095885
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 1777 map "37 Montauban." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église était un prieuré dépendant de l'abbaye de Moissac. L'intérieur conserve de nombreux chapiteaux sculptés ainsi qu'une grande cheminée datée de 1545. Les arcs ogifs du choeur reposent sur des culots sculptés.
English translation
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History
The church was a priory dependent on the abbey of Moissac. The interior preserves many sculptured capitals as well as a large fireplace dated 1545. The ogival arches of the choir rest on sculptured corbels.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.