Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
Croisances, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 301) : inscription par arrêté du 29 septembre 1969
- Protection dates
- 1969/09/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Croisances
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.89834, 3.61326
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092660
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1780 map "54 Saint-Flour." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Une église est mentionnée en 1244. L'édifice actuel présente une travée sous voûte en berceau et un choeur pentagonal en cul-de-four. Sur la façade ouest, porche à chanfrein, corniche d'entablement et un oculus dans la partie supérieure. Fenêtre d'inspiration romane. Abside extérieure polygonale, avec modillons. L'intérieur est marqué par un arc triomphal à chapiteaux d'inspiration romane, comme ceux des voussures du choeur.
English translation
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History
A church is mentioned in 1244. The present building presents a bay under barrel vault and a pentagonal choir in cul-de-four. On the west facade, a chamfered porch, entablature cornice and an oculus in the upper part. Window of Romanesque inspiration. External polygonal apse, with corbels. The interior is marked by a triumphal arch with capitals of Romanesque inspiration, like those of the choir vaults.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.