Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Avit
La Cellette, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 4 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Cellette
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.40401, 2.01516
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100027
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1762 map "12 Evaux." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice de la fin de l'époque romane, avec nef unique précédée d'un porche en tiers-point ouvert sous un massif en saillie entre les deux contreforts de la façade. Il se compose de deux voussures brisées sur colonnettes à chapiteaux à entrelacs. Le choeur plus étroit se compose d'une travée droite voûtée en berceau brisé, terminée par une abside hémicirculaire.
English translation
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History
Building from the end of the Romanesque period, with a single nave preceded by a porch with a pointed arch open beneath a projecting mass between the two buttresses of the façade. It consists of two broken voussures on small columns with capitals decorated with interlace. The narrower choir consists of a straight bay covered with a broken barrel vault, terminated by a hemicircular apse.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.