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Église Saint-Clair

Marat, Puy-de-Dôme, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Clocher et massif occidental (cad. AV 83) : inscription par arrêté du 26 novembre 1990
Protection dates
1990/11/26 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
15e siècle, 19e siècle, 20e siècle
Dates
1889, 1902
Architect or builder
Sauzet Barthélémy (architecte), Baratte (peintre-verrier), Grand Francis (peintre-verrier)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Marat
Département
Puy-de-Dôme
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
45.65897, 3.68219
Mérimée reference
PA00092526

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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

Cet édifice, reconstruit de 1899 à 1902, conserve un clocher-porche du 15e siècle exemplaire de cette région du Livradois : tour carrée, massive, épaulée par d'énormes contreforts angulaires à ressauts larmiers et chaperon en bâtière. Le portail à voussures et ébrasements garnis de niches (culots en coquilles servant de support autrefois pour des statues) est amorti par un gâble en accolade et des pinacles ornés de choux frisés. L'église primitive se composait, outre le clocher, d'un collatéral nord, d'une nef à deux chapelles latérales au sud, d'un choeur carré ouvrant sur une abside polygonale. £L'agrandissement de Barthélémy Sauzet reprend les modèles traditionnels de la région : piliers, chapiteaux, voûtes et remplages des baies. L'ensemble des fenêtres sont garnies de vitraux signés Francis Grand et Baratte.

English translation

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This building, reconstructed from 1899 to 1902, preserves an exemplary 15th-century porch tower of this region of Livradois: a square, massive tower, buttressed by enormous angular buttresses with stepped weatherings and pitched roof cap. The portal with voussoirs and splays furnished with niches (shell corbels formerly serving as support for statues) is terminated by a shouldered gable and pinnacles ornamented with curly cabbage foliage. The primitive church comprised, besides the bell tower, a northern aisle, a nave with two lateral chapels to the south, a square choir opening onto a polygonal apse. The enlargement by Barthélémy Sauzet takes up the traditional models of the region: pillars, capitals, vaults and tracery of the openings. All of the windows are furnished with stained glass signed by Francis Grand and Baratte.

Nearby in the register

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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