Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Laroquebrou, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église : classement par arrêté du 22 septembre 1914
- Protection dates
- 1914/09/22 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Laroquebrou
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.96789, 2.19061
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093528
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 1783 map "15 Aurillac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise construite à la fin du 14e siècle, se composant d'une nef de quatre travées avec chapelles au nord et au sud, d'un choeur et d'une abside polygonale. Petit clocher barlong, abaissé au cours des guerres de Religion.
Description
Grande nef avec chapelle latérales, voûté d'ogives, choeur polygonal
English translation
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History
Church built at the end of the 14th century, consisting of a nave of four bays with chapels to the north and south, a choir and a polygonal apse. Small oblong bell tower, lowered during the Wars of Religion.
Description
Large nave with lateral chapels, vaulted with ribs, polygonal choir
Nearby in the register
- Hôtel de ville (ancien hôtel de la Trémolière)hôtel de villeunder 1 mi
- Ancien château ou château de Laroquechâteauunder 1 mi
- Château de Messacchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Géraudéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.