Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Maurice
Vollore-Ville, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AB 187) : classement par arrêté du 6 octobre 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/10/06 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle, 18e siècle, 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1541, 1731, 1845
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vollore-Ville
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.78513, 3.60096
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092475
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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
L'église était, avant 1789, une paroisse à la nomination du prieuré de Sauviat. L'édifice était à l'origine totalement roman. Il semble subsister de cette période le vaisseau de la nef et la croisée du transept à coupole. En 1541, messire François de Chazeron fit presque entièrement reconstruire l'église en gothique tardif. La façade occidentale daterait de 1731. A la Révolution, le clocher roman qui dominait la croisée de transept fut abattu. Le clocher actuel, à deux niveaux, carré et hexagonal, fut construit en 1845. La coupole allongée, percée d'un oculus zénithal, repose sur quatre piles qui supportent quatre arcs diaphragmes brisés retombant sur des colonnes adossées par l'intermédiaire de chapiteaux ornés ou historiés. Des trompes plein-cintre rattrapent la différence de plan.
English translation
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History
The church was, before 1789, a parish within the gift of the priory of Sauviat. The building was originally entirely Romanesque. It appears that from this period there remains the nave and the transept crossing with dome. In 1541, Monsieur François de Chazeron had the church almost entirely rebuilt in late Gothic. The western façade would date from 1731. At the Revolution, the Romanesque bell tower which dominated the transept crossing was demolished. The present bell tower, with two levels, square and hexagonal, was built in 1845. The elongated dome, pierced with a zenith oculus, rests on four piers which support four broken diaphragm arches springing from engaged columns by means of ornate or historiated capitals. Round-arch squinches make up the difference in plan.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 16e siècle, avec tourelle d'anglemaisonunder 1 mi
- Croix en pierre du 16e sièclecroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Croix de cimetière en pierre du 16e sièclecroix de cimetièreunder 1 mi
- Croix de chemincroix de cheminunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.