Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Amand
Cussac, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 61) : inscription par arrêté du 30 décembre 1988
- Protection dates
- 1988/12/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Cussac
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.98395, 2.93108
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093504
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise formée d'une nef de trois travées ouvrant sur trois chapelles latérales (15e siècle) , et d'un choeur à chevet plat (époque romane). Le choeur est couvert d'une voûte d'ogives dont les retombées sont reçues sur des culs-de-lampe ornés de feuillages, d'une tête d'homme et d'une sirène. A l'extérieur, en avant du portail, s'ouvre un porche refait en 1626 dans le style du choeur : un homme nu tenant un arbre et une tête servent de cul-de-lampe aux nervures de la voûte.
English translation
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History
Church formed of a nave of three bays opening onto three lateral chapels (15th century), and a choir with flat chevet (Romanesque period). The choir is covered with a rib vault whose springings are received on corbels ornamented with foliage, a man's head and a siren. Outside, in front of the doorway, opens a porch remade in 1626 in the style of the choir: a naked man holding a tree and a head serve as corbels to the ribs of the vault.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.