Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Bessamorel, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. C 736) : inscription par arrêté du 15 juillet 1985
- Protection dates
- 1985/07/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 12e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bessamorel
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.12151, 4.08837
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092601
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1767 map "88 St.-Etienne, St.-Marcellin." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Bessamorel était une commanderie des Templiers du Puy. L'élément le plus ancien de l'église remonte au 12e siècle (choeur et deux travées de la nef). En 1574, la commanderie tombe aux mains des protestants qui n'épargnent que le presbytère et l'église. En 1752, reconstruction du clocher. Clocher carré à flèche polygonale, percé sur plusieurs faces de baies géminées, s'appuyant à l'Est sur un mur transversal séparant la couverture de la nef et celle de l'abside. Au 19e siècle, ajout d'une travée occidentale à la nef ainsi que deux chapelles formant transept (campagne de 1866 à 1867). L'église, de plan cruciforme, possède une abside circulaire à l'intérieur et polygonale à cinq pans à l'extérieur. L'abside, voûtée en cul de four, est séparée de la nef par un arc triomphal à doubles rouleaux.
English translation
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History
Bessamorel was a commandery of the Templars of Le Puy. The oldest element of the church dates back to the 12th century (choir and two bays of the nave). In 1574, the commandery fell into the hands of the Protestants who spared only the presbytery and the church. In 1752, reconstruction of the bell tower. Square bell tower with polygonal spire, pierced on several faces with twin openings, resting to the East on a transverse wall separating the covering of the nave and that of the apse. In the 19th century, addition of a western bay to the nave as well as two chapels forming a transept (campaign of 1866 to 1867). The church, of cruciform plan, has a circular apse inside and polygonal with five sides outside. The apse, vaulted with cul-de-four, is separated from the nave by a triumphal arch with double mouldings.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.