Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Clair
Cauzac, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. E 342) : inscription par arrêté du 30 juin 2000
- Protection dates
- 2000/06/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Later work
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Cauzac
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.29320, 0.81005
- Mérimée reference
- PA47000044
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 1783 map "72 Castillonez, Velleneuve, La Reole." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice roman formé d'une nef unique charpentée ouvrant sur un choeur en abside semi-circulaire voûtée en cul de four. Au 17e siècle, ajout d'un presbytère contre le mur nord, et d'un porche à l'entrée ouest. L'église conserve le dallage en pierre parsemé de pierres tombales dans le nef, et une corniche à tablettes sur modillons à l'abside.
English translation
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History
Romanesque building consisting of a single nave with roof structure opening onto a choir with a semi-circular apse vaulted with a cul-de-four. In the 17th century, addition of a presbytery against the north wall, and a porch at the western entrance. The church preserves the stone flooring scattered with tombstones in the nave, and a cornice with tablets on modillions at the apse.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Cauzacchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Sainte-Eulalieéglise1 mi
- Église Sainte-Foyéglise1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.