Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne abbaye
Solignac, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La porte d'entrée : inscription par arrêté du 24 janvier 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/01/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- abbaye
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Solignac
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.75405, 1.27440
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100501
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 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La porte de l'ancienne abbaye comporte un portail avec arcature en anse de panier, et est accolée de deux petites niches avec encadrement de colonnes et fronton.
English translation
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History
The gate of the former abbey features a portal with basket-handle arch arcade, and is flanked by two small niches with frame of columns and pediment.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Vieux pont sur la Briancepontunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Mathurinégliseunder 1 mi
- Pont Rompu sur la Briancepont1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.