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Abbaye du Moutier

Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
L'abbaye comprenant l'église (cad. AT 213) , le châtelet et le logis abbatial du 18e siècle (cad. AT 214) : inscription par arrêté du 27 septembre 2006
Protection dates
2006/09/27 : inscrit MH
Type
abbaye
Main period of construction
11e siècle, 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune, propriété privée
Commune
Thiers
Département
Puy-de-Dôme
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
45.85066, 3.54502
Mérimée reference
PA00092430

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "52 Clermont." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Edifice important au 12e siècle, réduit aujourd'hui aux travées de la nef et des bas-côtés, le reste étant en ruines certainement par suite de la chute d'un clocher qui occupait la croisée. Au 19e siècle, construction d'un choeur à l'emplacement de cette croisée, laissant de côté le reste. La nef devait se terminer par une abside circulaire et deux absidioles. Au sud du choeur se trouve une chapelle du 14e siècle. Les piliers ouest de la croisée ont été refaits au 16e siècle. La façade ouest conserve une tour dont les deux étages ont été refaits, l'un au 13e, l'autre au 19e siècle. Chapiteaux sculptés (feuillages, personnages...).

English translation

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Important edifice in the 12th century, reduced today to the bays of the nave and aisles, the rest being in ruins certainly as a result of the fall of a bell tower that occupied the crossing. In the 19th century, construction of a choir at the location of this crossing, leaving aside the rest. The nave must have ended with a circular apse and two apsidioles. South of the choir is found a chapel of the 14th century. The western pillars of the crossing were remade in the 16th century. The western façade preserves a tower whose two storeys were remade, one in the 13th, the other in the 19th century. Carved capitals (foliage, figures...).

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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