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Ancienne église Saint-Pardoux

Archignat, Allier, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Ancienne église (cad. D 429) : inscription par arrêté du 18 mars 1970
Protection dates
1970/03/18 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
Moyen Age
Ownership
propriété privée
Lieu-dit
Frontenat
Commune
Archignat
Département
Allier
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
46.34349, 2.39620
Mérimée reference
PA00092973

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1762 map "12 Evaux." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Edifice d'époque romane, remanié à différentes périodes. Il se compose d'une nef au vaisseau rectangulaire terminé par un choeur au chevet plat. Le vaisseau est couvert d'une charpente ayant remplacé un berceau en plein cintre. La façade occidentale est surmontée d'un clocher-mur terminé en pignon, ajouré de deux baies en plein cintre dont l'une contient une cloche. L'église de Frontenat, siège d'une paroisse de l'ancien diocèse de Bourges, a été vendue comme bien national à la Révolution puis rachetée à Archignat lors du Concordat de 1802. Depuis la Révolution, elle est restée propriété privée et a conservé son caractère d'édifice religieux.

English translation

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Building of Romanesque period, remodelled at different times. It comprises a nave with a rectangular vault terminated by a choir with a straight chevet. The vault is covered with roof structure that replaced a round arch barrel vault. The western façade is topped by a porch tower terminated in a gable, pierced by two round arch openings, one of which contains a bell. The church of Frontenat, seat of a parish of the former diocese of Bourges, was sold as national property during the Revolution and then repurchased by Archignat at the Concordat of 1802. Since the Revolution, it has remained private property and has retained its character as a religious building.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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