Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Bonnet
Giou-de-Mamou, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. D 264) : inscription par arrêté du 14 novembre 1980
- Protection dates
- 1980/11/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Giou-de-Mamou
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.93146, 2.51357
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093515
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice composé d'une nef à deux travées, d'une abside carrée à l'extérieur, à pans coupés à l'intérieur, et de chapelles latérales dont l'une contient l'enfeu de la famille de Giou. L'église paraît avoir été reconstruite à la fin du 14e siècle sur les restes d'une précédente église romane. Le clocher-peigne remonterait au 17e siècle. L'intérieur présente un voûtement sur croisée d'ogives.
English translation
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History
Building composed of a nave of two bays, a square apse on the exterior, with cut angles on the interior, and lateral chapels one of which contains the enfeu of the de Giou family. The church appears to have been rebuilt at the end of the 14th century on the remains of a previous Romanesque church. The comb bell tower would date to the 17th century. The interior presents a rib vault.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Ferme Varetfermeunder 1 mi
- Château de Caillacchâteau1 mi
- Château du Douxchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.