Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Médulphe (ou Saint-Myon)
Saint-Myon, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 11 mars 1911
- Protection dates
- 1911/03/11 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Myon
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.99441, 3.13194
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092372
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailTexas A&M University LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1767 map "51 Gannat, St. Pourcain." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise de la fin du 11e ou du début du 12e siècle, de style roman auvergnat. L'édifice se compose d'une nef se terminant par un choeur avec cul-de-four. Deux bas-côtés se rejoignent en déambulatoire autour de l'abside. Sur le choeur ouvrent trois chapelles rayonnantes demi circulaires. Au 13e siècle, ajout d'un portail à l'ouest et, au 18e siècle, d'une tour carrée sur la travée occidentale.
English translation
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History
Church from the end of the 11th or beginning of the 12th century, in Auvergnat Romanesque style. The structure consists of a nave terminating in a choir with an apse. Two aisles meet in an ambulatory around the apse. On the choir open three radiating half-circular chapels. In the 13th century, addition of a portal to the west and, in the 18th century, a square tower on the western bay.
Nearby in the register
- Prieuré de Saint-Myonprieuréunder 1 mi
- Fontaine du 12e sièclefontaineunder 1 mi
- Maison Treilhesmaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.