Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean
Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Jean (cad. AT 23) : inscription par arrêté du 27 octobre 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/10/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Thiers
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.85113, 3.54957
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092432
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 1776 map "52 Clermont." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise d'origine romane, entièrement reconstruite au 15e siècle. Au 16e siècle, lors des guerres de Religion, l'église fut englobée dans le système défensif de la dernière enceinte des remparts. L'édifice subit alors d'importants remaniements. Occasionnellement, il servait de redoute aux soldats qui se postaient au-dessus des voûtes, derrière des créneaux espacés qui subsistent encore. La crypte a été comblée par les terres apportées de l'ancien cimetière du Moûtier. Pendant la Révolution, l'église fut désaffectée et transformée en fabrique d'armes. Elle fut rendue au culte sous l'Empire et entièrement restaurée au 19e siècle. Sa partie occidentale fut reconstruite. Les vitraux datent des années 1892-1896.
English translation
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History
Church of Romanesque origin, entirely rebuilt in the 15th century. In the 16th century, during the Wars of Religion, the church was incorporated into the defensive system of the last rampart wall. The building then underwent major alterations. Occasionally, it served as a redoubt for soldiers who took up positions above the vaults, behind spaced crenellations which still remain. The crypt was filled with earth brought from the old Moûtier cemetery. During the Revolution, the church was deconsecrated and converted into an arms factory. It was returned to worship under the Empire and entirely restored in the 19th century. Its western part was rebuilt. The stained-glass windows date from 1892-1896.
Nearby in the register
- Forges Mondièregrosse forgeunder 1 mi
- Usine du Maycoutellerieunder 1 mi
- Maison dite Maison des Consulsmaisonunder 1 mi
- Ancienne chapelle de la Clôtrachapelleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.