Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Saturnin
Saint-Sornin-Lavolps, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 9 février 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/02/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Sornin-Lavolps
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.37746, 1.38352
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099880
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 "34 Tulle, Pompadour." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise cruciforme avec portail à voussures, colonnettes et tores. Chapiteaux à feuillages de chêne et choux frisés. Sanctuaire carré et choeur voûté à nervures prismatiques avec clefs armoriées. Clocher campanile au-dessus d'une façade plate.
English translation
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History
Cruciform church with doorway with voussoirs, small columns and tori. Capitals with oak leaves and curly cabbage. Square sanctuary and vaulted choir with prismatic ribs with heraldic keys. Bell tower campanile above a flat façade.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Eutropeéglise1 mi
- Haras national de Pompadourchâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Pardouxéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Julien de Brioudeéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.