Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Silvain
Saint-Silvain-Montaigut, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le choeur ; la travée précédant le choeur ; la chapelle Nord et la porte à accolade Nord : inscription par arrêté du 9 mars 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/03/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Silvain-Montaigut
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.14209, 1.75140
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100195
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
L'église du 15e siècle a remplacé une église romane. A l'extérieur, le chevet présente deux contreforts à bâtière, l'un surmonté d'une croix, l'autre d'une Pietà dans une niche.
English translation
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History
The church of the 15th century replaced a Romanesque church. On the exterior, the chevet presents two buttresses with sloping tops, one surmounted by a cross, the other by a Pietà in a niche.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Gartempechâteauunder 1 mi
- Restes du châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.