Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Placide
Saint-Plaisir, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 28 décembre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/12/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Plaisir
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.62262, 2.96879
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093282
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
Eglise à trois nefs terminée par un chevet carré, le clocher étant élevé au-dessus de la dernière travée de la nef. Au 14e siècle, construction de deux chapelles de chaque côté du chevet. Le portail d'entrée se compose de trois archivoltes plein cintre, moulurées de gorges et de tores, que reçoivent de chaque côté trois colonnes. L'édifice a été voûté en tiers point postérieurement à sa construction. Les bas-côtés sont voûtés d'arêtes. Les arcs retombent sur des impostes chanfreinées.
English translation
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History
Church with three naves terminated by a square chevet, the bell tower being raised above the last bay of the nave. In the 14th century, construction of two chapels on each side of the chevet. The entrance portal comprises three round-arch archivolts, moulded with gorges and tori, which are received on each side by three columns. The building was vaulted with pointed arch subsequently to its construction. The aisles are vaulted with rib vaults. The arches rest on chamfered impost blocks.