Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Marcel
Saint-Marcel-en-Murat, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 187) : classement par arrêté du 1er octobre 1963
- Protection dates
- 1963/10/01 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Marcel-en-Murat
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.32041, 3.00886
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093278
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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
L'église existait déjà au 11e siècle, mais a reçu sa forme actuelle lors d'une seconde campagne de travaux au 12e siècle. Edifice roman caractéristique du style bourbonnais : son choeur à trois absidioles en cul de four, son clocher sur la travée centrale contrebutée par les berceaux latéraux, sa nef à arcatures aveugles, en sont des dispositions typiques. Les deux chapelles servaient de sépulture aux seigneurs du Saulget. Adjonction ultérieure de la sacristie et de la flèche. Le pignon est surmonté d'une ancienne croix de chemin remployée comme antefixe.
English translation
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History
The church already existed in the 11th century, but received its present form during a second campaign of works in the 12th century. Building characteristic of the Bourbonnais Romanesque style: its choir with three half-dome apses, its bell tower on the central bay buttressed by the lateral barrel vaults, its nave with blind arcades, are typical arrangements. The two chapels served as burial places for the lords of Saulget. Later addition of the sacristy and the spire. The gable is surmounted by an old wayside cross reused as an antefix.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.