Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Julien
Nespouls, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 24 avril 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/04/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Nespouls
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.04894, 1.50260
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099816
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1785 map "35 Sarlat." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne église fortifiée de plan en croix. Nef voûtée en berceau sur arcs doubleaux retombant sur chapiteaux géométriques. Choeur à pan coupé avec arcs et colonnettes extérieurs. Abside à cinq pans. Deux chapelles avec croisées d'ogives ajoutées au 14e siècle. Clocher mur portant deux cloches. Dallage de pierre de granit taillé. Au 14e siècle, au moment des guerres, un logis fortifié fut construit au-dessus des voûtes, afin de servir de refuge pour la population en cas d'attaque.
English translation
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History
Former fortified church with cross plan. Nave with barrel vault on double arches resting on geometric capitals. Choir with cut angles and exterior arcs and small columns. Apse with five sides. Two chapels with rib vaulting added in the 14th century. Buttress bell tower bearing two bells. Flooring of dressed granite stone. In the 14th century, during the wars, a fortified dwelling was constructed above the vaults in order to serve as a refuge for the population in case of attack.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Barthélémyéglise2 mi
- Château de la Fagechâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Gilles d'Athèneséglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.