Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Saturnin
Sioniac, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 16 septembre 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/09/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sioniac
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.97544, 1.81932
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099898
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 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Au 9e siècle (vers 855) , se trouvait être la paroisse primitive de Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne. Eglise à nef unique, la première travée étant voûtée en berceau, les trois autres sur croisées d'ogives. Six colonnes rondes à demi-engagées, à bases enterrées, à chapiteaux feuillurés à volutes, supportent des arcs doubleaux plein cintre. Huit colonnettes encastrées, à chapiteaux feuillurés, reçoivent les arcs diagonaux. Clocher à pignon très aigu dépassant la toiture.
English translation
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History
In the 9th century (around 855), it was the primitive parish of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne. Church with a single nave, the first bay being vaulted in barrel vault, the three others on rib vaults. Six round half-engaged columns, with buried bases, with foliage capitals with volutes, support round arch double arches. Eight embedded colonnettes, with foliage capitals, receive the diagonal arches. Bell tower with very acute gable exceeding the roof.
Nearby in the register
- Maison Plazanetmaisonunder 1 mi
- Porte aux armes de la villeporteunder 1 mi
- Immeuble du Bessolimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Vieille maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.