Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Menet, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 1er septembre 1922
- Protection dates
- 1922/09/01 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Menet
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.29597, 2.58563
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093549
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane composée d'une nef de quatre travées avec bas-côtés du 12e siècle, la première étant voûtée en berceau, les seconds par des demi-berceaux. Une coupole s'élève sur la croisée. Quatre chapelles furent ajoutés après coup, ainsi que la tourelle d'escalier, le clocher et le pignon du portail. Deux de ces chapelles datent de la Renaissance. Chapiteaux et sculptures sont bien conservés.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church composed of a nave of four bays with side aisles from the 12th century, the first being vaulted with a barrel vault, the latter with half barrel vaults. A dome rises above the crossing. Four chapels were added afterwards, as well as the stair turret, the bell tower and the gable of the portal. Two of these chapels date from the Renaissance. Capitals and sculptures are well preserved.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.