Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Bellenaves, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 8 juillet 1911
- Protection dates
- 1911/07/08 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bellenaves
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.19962, 3.07837
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092990
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 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice de style roman auvergnat, dont la nef est voûtée en berceau, les bas-côtés en quart de cercle, l'abside et les chapelles latérales voûtées en cul-de-four. Clocher gothique. La façade présente un tympan sculpté d'une Cène pouvant remonter au 13e siècle. La coupole et le clocher qui la surmonte sont une transition entre le 12e et le 13e siècle.
English translation
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History
Building in Auvergnat Romanesque style, of which the nave is vaulted with a barrel vault, the aisles with a quarter circle, the apse and the lateral chapels vaulted with a half-dome vault. Gothic bell tower. The façade presents a tympanum sculpted with a Last Supper which may date to the 13th century. The dome and the bell tower which surmounts it are a transition between the 12th and 13th centuries.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Bellenaveschâteauunder 1 mi
- Château du Beyratchâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Andrééglise2 mi
- Restes de l'ancien châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.