Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Laurent des Hommes
Saint-Laurent-des-Hommes, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. E 149) : inscription par arrêté du 24 mars 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/03/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Laurent-des-Hommes
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.03710, 0.25423
- Mérimée reference
- PA24000017
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane à l'origine, détruite en 1362, puis reconstruite avant d'être à nouveau saccagée en 1587 par Turenne après la bataille de Coutras. Le choeur a conservé quelques voûtes du 16e siècle. Les voûtes de la nef ont été refaites au 19e siècle (1868) sur le modèle ancien.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church originally, destroyed in 1362, then rebuilt before being sacked again in 1587 by Turenne after the battle of Coutras. The choir has preserved some 16th-century vaults. The vaults of the nave were remade in the 19th century (1868) following the old model.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.