Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Vincent
Fontanges, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 21 juin 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/06/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 15e siècle
- Dates
- 1468
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Fontanges
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.11347, 2.50219
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093514
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 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise construite en 1468. La nef de six travées, sans transept, se termine par une abside à trois jours. Sept chapelles sont adossées aux murs latéraux. Le clocher présente une tour quadrangulaire à sa base, puis octogonale, percée de huit baies plein cintre, surmontée d'une flèche de charpente. Cette tour est le dernier vestige de l'église romane.
English translation
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History
Church built in 1468. The nave of six bays, without transept, ends in an apse with three windows. Seven chapels are attached to the lateral walls. The bell tower presents a quadrangular tower at its base, then octagonal, pierced by eight round-arch openings, surmounted by a timber spire. This tower is the last vestige of the Romanesque church.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Lamargéchâteauunder 1 mi
- Château de Palmontchâteau1 mi
- Maison des Templiersmaison2 mi
- Maisonmaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.