Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pardoux
Saint-Pardoux-Morterolles, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 16 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Pardoux-Morterolles
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.89697, 1.82044
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100184
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Trois époques de construction se distinguent : 12e, 13e, et 15e siècle. La nef principale est voûtée en berceau plein cintre. Le choeur est séparé seulement de la nef par deux colonnes engagées portant un doubleau. Au nord s'ouvre le portail en tiers point. A droite de la porte d'entrée se trouve une piscine baptismale, exemple très rare. A gauche se trouve une cuve baptismale du 12e siècle portant, sur une face, la représentation du soleil avec, en-dessous, un petit buste souvenir de l'Apollon païen, et sur l'autre face la lune. Peu après, une chapelle fut percée dans le mur nord. Au 15e siècle, l'édifice subit des travaux (ouverture de baies sur le mur sud, ajout d'une nef de trois travées).
English translation
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History
Three periods of construction are distinguished: 12th, 13th, and 15th century. The main nave is vaulted in round-arch barrel vault. The chevet is separated from the nave only by two engaged columns carrying a double arch. To the north opens the pointed-arch portal. To the right of the entrance door is found a baptismal font, a very rare example. To the left is found a baptismal basin of the 12th century bearing, on one face, the representation of the sun with, below it, a small bust reminiscent of pagan Apollo, and on the other face the moon. Shortly after, a chapel was pierced in the north wall. In the 15th century, the building underwent works (opening of bays on the south wall, addition of a nave of three bays).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.