Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Piedicorte-di-Gaggio, Haute-Corse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Bas-relief provenant d'une église détruite et incorporé dans le clocher (cad. G 12) : classement par arrêté du 15 mars 1958
- Protection dates
- 1958/03/15 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Piedicorte-di-Gaggio
- Département
- Haute-Corse
- Region
- Corse
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.23617, 9.32813
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099228
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 1783 map "Corse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église conserve un élément remployé, datant de l'occupation pisane de l'île. Ce bas-relief surmontait la porte d'une église détruite. Le tympan est nu et repose sur un beau linteau orné d'entrelacs et est surmonté par une archivolte ornée de monstres sculptés en haut relief.
English translation
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History
The church preserves a reused element dating from the Pisan occupation of the island. This bas-relief surmounted the door of a destroyed church. The tympanum is bare and rests on a fine lintel decorated with interlace and is crowned by an archivolt decorated with monsters carved in high relief.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.