Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Notre-Dame-d'Estours
Monistrol-d'Allier, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Abside : inscription par arrêté du 7 janvier 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/01/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Monistrol-d'Allier
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.00425, 3.58981
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092714
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 1780 map "54 Saint-Flour." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette chapelle de pélerinage, comprend un choeur du 12e siècle voûté d'ogives. La voûte paraît du 13e siècle. Les chapelles qui y sont accolées sont également voûtées d'ogives et paraissent du 15e siècle. L'abside est demi circulaire, voûtée en cul-de-four. Elle comporte cinq arcatures internes reposant sur des colonnettes avec chapiteaux d'une sculpture rudimentaire d'allure byzantine. Choeur et transept sont de style roman ; le reste est de style gothique. Des chapelles modernes ouvrent dans la nef.
English translation
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History
This pilgrimage chapel comprises a 12th-century chevet vaulted with ribs. The vault appears to be from the 13th century. The chapels adjoined to it are likewise vaulted with ribs and appear to be from the 15th century. The apse is semi-circular, vaulted with a cul-de-four. It contains five internal arcatures resting on small columns with capitals of a rudimentary sculpture of Byzantine appearance. Chevet and transept are of Romanesque style; the rest is of Gothic style. Modern chapels open into the nave.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Andrééglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Sébastienéglise2 mi
- Chapelle Sainte-Marie-des-Chazeschapelle3 mi
- abbaye Saint-Pierre-des-Chazesabbaye3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.