Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Le Vilhain, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 17 mai 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/05/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Le Vilhain
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.56094, 2.79662
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093367
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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 la fin de l'époque romane, comprenant une nef de deux travées (12e et 13e siècles) flanquée d'étroits bas-côtés, et un transept non saillant. L'abside primitive a été remplacée au 13e siècle par un chevet à cinq pans voûté sur branches d'ogives. Des berceaux transversaux couvrent les bras du transept, ce dernier ayant été, au 13e siècle, revoûté d'ogives. Un berceau brisé sur doubleaux couvre la nef. Les piles sont carrées, cantonnées de colonnes. Les bas-côtés sont voûtés en quart de cercle. Les chapiteaux sont sculptés de crochets de feuillages. La porte principale, avec trois voussures toriques, est ornée d'un tympan polylobé. Il subsiste sur les murs latéraux des modillons ornés de têtes.
English translation
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History
Building of the late Romanesque period, comprising a nave of two bays (12th and 13th centuries) flanked by narrow aisles, and a non-projecting transept. The primitive apse was replaced in the 13th century by a chevet with five sides vaulted on rib branches. Transverse barrels cover the arms of the transept, the latter having been, in the 13th century, revaulted with ogives. A broken barrel on doubleaux covers the nave. The piers are square, flanked by columns. The aisles are vaulted in quarter-circle. The capitals are sculpted with leaf crockets. The main door, with three toric voussures, is ornamented with a polylobed tympanum. There remain on the side walls modillions decorated with heads.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.