Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Éloi
Vitray, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AB 33) : inscription par arrêté du 2 juin 1976
- Protection dates
- 1976/06/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vitray
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.61064, 2.65958
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093373
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 composé d'un choeur à chevet plat d'époque romane (12e siècle) , voûté en plein cintre, et d'une nef édifiée au 17e siècle, plafonnée. Clocher du 17e couvert d'essentes. Deux figures sans doute d'époque gothique sont encastrées dans la façade occidentale, de part et d'autre de la baie haute.
English translation
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History
Building composed of a chevet with flat east end of Romanesque period (12th century), vaulted with a barrel vault, and a nave built in the 17th century, with a ceiling. 17th-century bell tower covered with shingles. Two figures probably from the Gothic period are set into the western facade, on either side of the upper opening.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.