Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Yrieix
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.51508, 1.20242
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100494
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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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise, ancienne collégiale, a été fondée au 11e siècle. Le clocher est de la même époque. Nef, transept et choeur datent du 12e siècle. L'abside est du 14e siècle, le choeur n'étant pas dans l'axe de la nef. Deux chapelles latérales entourent le choeur.
English translation
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History
Church, former collegiate church, was founded in the 11th century. The bell tower is of the same period. Nave, transept and choir date from the 12th century. The apse is of the 14th century, the choir not being in the axis of the nave. Two lateral chapels surround the choir.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtel de la Moréliehôtelunder 1 mi
- Tour du Plôbeffroiunder 1 mi
- Ancienne carrière de kaolin de Marcognaccarrière2 mi
- Grange ovale du Breuilhgrange3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.