Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Robert
La Villedieu, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 300) : inscription par arrêté du 21 octobre 1963
- Protection dates
- 1963/10/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- la Villedieu
- Commune
- La Villedieu
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.73347, 1.88833
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100220
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1763 map "13 Aubusson." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le patronage de cette église appartenait au prieuré de La Villedieu. L'édifice est formé d'un vaisseau unique terminé par un choeur à cinq pans. Sur la façade ouest s'ouvre le portail de type limousin, de tracé brisé à l'archivolte décorée d'une chaîne aux anneaux en forme d'olive creuse. Des tores retombant sur colonnettes à chapiteaux sculptés garnissent les ressauts. A la partie médiane, entre deux décors toriques, un cavet est orné de têtes de clous qu'interrompt un chapiteau (animal accroupi). La façade occidentale est surmontée d'un clocher-mur à pignon triangulaire et deux arcades, refait en 1833.
English translation
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History
The patronage of this church belonged to the priory of La Villedieu. The edifice is formed of a single nave terminated by a choir with five bays. On the west façade opens a portal of Limousin type, of pointed-arch profile with the archivolt decorated with a chain of rings in the form of hollow olive. Tori falling onto columnettes with sculpted capitals adorn the recesses. At the medial part, between two toric decorations, a cavetto is ornamented with nail heads interrupted by a capital (crouching animal). The western façade is surmounted by a porch tower with triangular gable and two arcades, remade in 1833.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.