Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines de l'ancienne église
Saint-Geniez-Ô-Merle, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (ruines de l'ancienne) (cad. A 171) : classement par arrêté du 14 octobre 1969
- Protection dates
- 1969/10/14 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Geniez-Ô-Merle
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.06985, 2.08315
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099861
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 "15 Aurillac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Sur la hauteur du site se trouvent les ruines d'une ancienne église dont il ne reste que le clocher-mur et un pan de la façade latérale nord. L'église devenue inutile en 1920, elle fut désaffectée et tomba progressivement en ruines. Au rez-de-chaussée de la façade occidentale s'ouvre, sous un arc de travé brisé, le portail à trois voussures anx angles abattus d'un cavet, que ferment deux vantaux semés de clous en fer forgé. Le clocher ajouré a été sauvé de la ruine par les habitants.
English translation
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History
On the height of the site are found the ruins of an ancient church of which there remain only the bell tower wall and a section of the north lateral façade. The church having become unnecessary in 1920, it was deconsecrated and gradually fell into ruins. On the ground floor of the western façade opens, under a pointed arch of bay, the portal with three voussures at the angles bevelled by a cavetto, which are closed by two leaves sown with wrought iron nails. The openwork bell tower was saved from ruin by the inhabitants.
Nearby in the register
- Restes du château de Merlechâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Cyr-Sainte-Julitteégliseunder 1 mi
- Croix de chemincroix de chemin1 mi
- Château du Rieuxchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.