Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Saturnin
Coussac-Bonneval, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AB 129) : inscription par arrêté du 30 mars 1978
- Protection dates
- 1978/03/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Coussac-Bonneval
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.51073, 1.32615
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100290
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 1783 map "34 Tulle, Pompadour." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église était une cure de l'ancien archiprêtré de Lubersac. L'édifice primitif daterait du 11e siècle. La transformation ou la reconstruction du 15e siècle n'a pas affecté le plan primitif en croix latine. Nef unique à deux travées voûtées d'ogives, avec transept et abside pentagonale peu saillante voûtée d'ogives à six branches. Sur la façade occidentale, le portail de type limousin, du 15e siècle, est formé de cinq voussures en arc brisé garnies de colonnettes. Les chapiteaux frises sont ornés de petits personnages. Le clocher s'élève sur le bras sud du transept. Il est carré, éclairé de baies en plein cintre et étayé sur chaque face par des contreforts talutés.
English translation
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History
The church was a curacy of the old archpriesthood of Lubersac. The primitive edifice would date from the 11th century. The transformation or reconstruction of the 15th century did not affect the primitive plan in Latin cross. Single nave with two bays with rib vaults, with transept and slightly projecting pentagonal apse with rib vault with six ribs. On the western façade, the portal of Limousin type, from the 15th century, is formed of five archivolts in pointed arch furnished with small columns. The frieze capitals are adorned with small figures. The bell tower rises on the south arm of the transept. It is square, lit by round-arch openings and buttressed on each face by talus buttresses.
Nearby in the register
- Lanterne des Mortslanterne des mortsunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.