Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Cistrières, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 7 janvier 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/01/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Cistrières
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.32133, 3.62214
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092654
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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 1769 map "53 Brioude, Issoire." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église se compose d'une nef avec bas-côtés, construction moderne de style neo-grec, et d'une abside romane présentant à l'extérieur trois pans consolidés par des contreforts et circulaire à l'intérieur. Le pourtour est orné d'arcatures ayant perdu leurs colonnettes. A l'extérieur ne subsiste que la corniche ornée de modillons sculptés.
English translation
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History
The church is composed of a nave with aisles, modern construction in the neo-Greek style, and a Romanesque apse presenting externally three facets consolidated by buttresses and circular internally. The perimeter is ornamented with arcading having lost their columns. On the exterior only the cornice ornamented with sculpted modillions remains.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.