Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de la Décollation de Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Neuvic-Entier, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 72) : inscription par arrêté du 4 février 1988
- Protection dates
- 1988/02/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Neuvic-Entier
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.72248, 1.61212
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100402
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église comprend un porche voûté à croisée d'ogives et une nef de quatre travées dont la dernière sert de sanctuaire. Le clocher-porche est percé d'une porte en arc brisé. Dans le mur sud s'ouvre un portail limousin du 13e siècle, à trois voussures et une archivolte à retours. Les chapiteaux-frises sont ornés de feuilles d'eau et de feuillages en crochets.
English translation
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History
The church comprises a porch vaulted with a rib vault and a nave of four bays of which the last serves as the sanctuary. The porch tower is pierced with a pointed-arch door. In the south wall opens a Limousin portal of the 13th century, with three voussures and an archivolte with returns. The frieze capitals are decorated with water-leaves and crocket foliage.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.