Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Gilles
Chamalières-sur-Loire, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église : classement par liste de 1862
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Chamalières-sur-Loire
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.20148, 3.98487
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092640
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailBibliothèque 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
Edifice de la fin du 11e ou du début du 12e siècle, composé de deux parties distinctes. La première époque de construction comprend la nef, les bas-côtés et les transepts. La seconde se compose du choeur avec quatre chapelles absidiales rayonnantes et est surmontée par une voûte en cul-de-four. Chapiteaux sculptés d'animaux fantastiques, de végétation et de figures humaines. Peintures murales du 12e siècle.
English translation
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History
Building from the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century, composed of two distinct parts. The first period of construction comprises the nave, the aisles and the transepts. The second consists of the choir with four radiating chapel apses and is surmounted by a quarter-dome vault. Capitals carved with fantastic animals, vegetation and human figures. Mural paintings from the 12th century.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien prieuréprieuréunder 1 mi
- Château de Ventressacchâteauunder 1 mi
- Château d'Artiaschâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptisteéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.