Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur
Villefranche-d'Allier, 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
- 11e siècle, 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Villefranche-d'Allier
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.39721, 2.85697
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093370
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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 comprenant une nef de trois travées, flanquée au nord d'un collatéral d'une travée et au sud d'un collatéral de trois travées ; un transept sur lequel s'ouvrent une abside et deux absidioles en hémicycle. Le mur latéral nord et le croisillon nord appartiennent à un édifice de la fin du 11e siècle. Le chevet a entièrement été refait à l'époque romane. Le bas-côté sud date du 13e siècle. La chapelle sud est du 15e siècle. Au 16e siècle, l'édifice a été raccourci à l'ouest. L'intérieur a été refait à l'époque gothique.
English translation
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History
Building comprising a nave of three bays, flanked to the north by an aisle of one bay and to the south by an aisle of three bays; a transept on which open an apse and two hemicycle absidioles. The north lateral wall and the north transept arm belong to a building from the end of the 11th century. The chevet was entirely remade in the Romanesque period. The south aisle dates from the 13th century. The south chapel is from the 15th century. In the 16th century, the building was shortened to the west. The interior was remade in the Gothic period.
Nearby in the register
- Ferme-château de Saint-Moeursferme2 mi
- Château de Neuvillechâteau2 mi
- Restes du châteauchâteau2 mi
- Château de la Brosse-Raquinchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.