Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Georges
Compains, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 16 avril 1904
- Protection dates
- 1904/04/16 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Compains
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.44156, 2.92683
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092085
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1712 map "Les Provinces et Gouvernemens Du Lionnois ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petite église de village avec deux travées de nef sans bas-côtés, un choeur d'une travée et une abside à cinq pans. Un clocher s'élève sur la croisée du transept, couronné d'une flèche. Les fenêtres sont longues et étroites pour résister au froid. L'édifice est du 13e siècle ; l'escalier placé à l'angle du transept et de la nef date du 15e siècle.
English translation
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History
Small village church with two bays of nave without aisles, a choir of one bay and an apse of five sides. A bell tower rises over the crossing of the transept, crowned with a spire. The windows are long and narrow to resist the cold. The building is of the 13th century; the staircase placed at the angle of the transept and the nave dates from the 15th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.