Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Laurent
Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. C 45) : classement par arrêté du 10 avril 1980
- Protection dates
- 1980/04/10 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.77044, 0.95725
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100461
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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 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Il y avait une prévôté et une cure qui dépendaient de l'abbé de Saint-Martial de Limoges. La partie orientale (abside, clocher et transept) date du 12e siècle. La nef est du 15e siècle. Sur plan basilical, la nef unique aboutit à un transept avec coupole sur pendentifs à la croisée. Le choeur se termine par un hémicycle voûté en cul de four. La façade sud s'ouvre par un portail du 15e siècle.
English translation
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History
There was a provostry and a cure which depended on the abbot of Saint-Martial de Limoges. The eastern part (chevet, bell tower and transept) dates from the 12th century. The nave is from the 15th century. On a basilical plan, the single nave leads to a transept with a dome on pendentives at the crossing. The choir ends with a hemicycle vaulted in a cul de four. The south façade opens with a 15th-century portal.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmen dit La Pierre Levéedolmen2 mi
- Pont de Lascaux sur la Gorrepont3 mi
- Château de Saint-Auventchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.