Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Germain
Saint-Germain-Laprade, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 23 octobre 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/10/23 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Germain-Laprade
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.03790, 3.96954
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092848
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 1777 map "89 Le Puy." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane présentant la particularité d'avoir un chevet carré couvert d'une coupole sur trompes surmontée d'un clocher. L'hypothèse a été émise de la transformation d'une salle basse de tour défensive en abside. La nef, quoique sensiblement de la même époque, n'a pas été construite en même temps que l'abside, comme en témoignent les traces de collage.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church presenting the particularity of having a square chevet covered with a dome on pendentives surmounted by a bell tower. The hypothesis has been put forward of the transformation of a lower hall of a defensive tower into an apse. The nave, although substantially from the same period, was not built at the same time as the apse, as evidenced by the traces of bonding.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Ancienne abbaye de Doueabbaye1 mi
- Château de Gendriacchâteau2 mi
- Vieux pont de Brivespont2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.