Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul
Dompierre-les-Eglises, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le clocher : inscription par arrêté du 16 juillet 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/07/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Dompierre-les-Eglises
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.22629, 1.25326
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100296
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1714 map "Carte du Gouvernement d'Orleanois" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'édifice se compose d'une nef et de deux petits transepts. La nef se termine par deux pignons de maçonnerie, couverts de rampants en pierre de taille. A l'extrémité de la nef, côté ouest, se trouve un clocher en charpente de bois, octogonal, surmonté d'une flèche très aigüe. Clocher et flèche sont couverts en bardeaux de bois de châtaignier. Le clocher s'appuie d'une part sur un redan de la maçonnerie du pignon, d'autre part sur deux montants en bois prenant leur point d'appui sur le sol de l'église. La nef a peut-être été primitivement couverte par une voûte en maçonnerie.
English translation
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History
The building is composed of a nave and two small transepts. The nave ends with two gables of masonry, covered with rampants in ashlar. At the west end of the nave is an octagonal bell tower in wood carpentry, topped with a very sharp spire. Bell tower and spire are covered in shingles of chestnut wood. The bell tower is supported on the one hand by a step in the masonry of the gable, on the other hand by two wooden posts taking their bearing point on the floor of the church. The nave may perhaps originally have been covered by a masonry vault.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.