Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Barthélémy
Bénévent-l'Abbaye, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par liste de 1862
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Dates
- 1150
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bénévent-l'Abbaye
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.11940, 1.62949
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100007
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 1768 map "32 Le Dorat." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
En 1028, un pélerin fit don d'une partie des reliques de Saint-Barthélémy qu'il avait rapportées de Bénévent, en Italie. Une basilique fut bâtie pour y déposer ces reliques. Eglise bâtie de 1120 à 1150.
English translation
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History
In 1028, a pilgrim made a donation of part of the relics of Saint Bartholomew which he had brought back from Benevento, in Italy. A basilica was built to house these relics. Church built from 1120 to 1150.
Nearby in the register
- Fontainefontaineunder 1 mi
- Église de l'Assomption-de-la-Très-Sainte-Viergeéglise3 mi
- Église Saint-Rémiéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.