Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Symphorien
Bussière-Dunoise, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Eglise, à l'exception des parties modernes (cad. AY 186) : inscription par arrêté du 26 mars 1969
- Protection dates
- 1969/03/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 15e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bussière-Dunoise
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.25835, 1.76332
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100025
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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
Abside et partie des murs de la nef : 12e siècle. Portail nord avec ses chapiteaux sculptés et les assises du clocher-porche : 13e siècle. Fenêtre axiale de l'abside : 15e siècle. L'arcade de l'entrée du choeur est reçue par des colonnes engagées sur des dosserets, à grands chapiteaux sculptés. Un de ces chapiteaux figure un jongleur accroupi, l'autre un lion. La voûte en cul-de-four a été refaite et percée d'une baie à réseau flamboyant au 15e siècle. Le clocher a été remanié au 17e siècle. Le patronage de l'église appartint successivement au prévôt de Saint-Vaury puis à l'abbaye de Saint-Martial de Limoges.
English translation
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History
Chevet and part of the walls of the nave: 12th century. North portal with its sculptured capitals and the courses of the porch tower: 13th century. Axial window of the chevet: 15th century. The arcade of the entrance to the choir is received by engaged columns on pilasters, with large sculptured capitals. One of these capitals depicts a crouching juggler, the other a lion. The semi-domed vault was remade and pierced with a flamboyant tracery opening in the 15th century. The bell tower was altered in the 17th century. The patronage of the church belonged successively to the provost of Saint-Vaury then to the abbey of Saint-Martial de Limoges.
Nearby in the register
- Croixcroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.