Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
La Chapelle-Laurent, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Choeur (cad. C4 95) : inscription par arrêté du 17 septembre 1969
- Protection dates
- 1969/09/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Chapelle-Laurent
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.17755, 3.24285
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093491
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1769 map "53 Brioude, Issoire." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise rurale ayant conservé un choeur d'époque romane. La nef a été remaniée postérieurement. Deux chapelles latérales formant faux transept lui ont été accolées au 16e siècle. La nef communique avec le choeur par un arc doubleau brisé reçu sur colonnes engagées sur dosserets, par l'intermédiaire de chapiteaux sculptés (feuillages, griffons). Le choeur, en forme d'abside à cinq pans coupés, est couvert d'un cul-de-four porté sur cinq arcatures en plein cintre dont les colonnettes sont surmontées par des chapiteaux aux corbeilles également sculptées de deux rangées alternées de feuilles lancéolées au-dessus desquelles s'enroulent des volutes.
English translation
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History
Rural church which has preserved a choir of Romanesque period. The nave was subsequently altered. Two lateral chapels forming a false transept were added to it in the 16th century. The nave communicates with the choir by a broken arch doublet received on columns engaged on pilaster strips, by means of carved capitals (foliage, griffins). The choir, in the form of an apse with five canted ends, is covered with a cul-de-four carried on five round-arch arcatures whose colonnettes are surmounted by capitals with baskets also carved with two rows alternating lanceolate leaves above which scrolls curl.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.