Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Géraud
Montvert, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Abside : classement par arrêté du 17 août 1921
- Protection dates
- 1921/08/17 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montvert
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.99448, 2.16055
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093556
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
L'édifice comprend une abside circulaire romane dont le pourtour est décoré, à l'extérieur, de colonnes engagées sur contreforts méplats et d'un cordon de billettes continu qui contourne l'archivolte des trois fenêtres. A l'intérieur, celles-ci sont cantonnées de colonnettes avec bases et chapiteaux, portant un tore circulaire encadrant la baie. Un cordon orné d'un damier court à la base d'une voûte en lattis et plâtre qui a remplacé le cul-de-four primitif. La nef est du 15e siècle.
English translation
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History
The building comprises a circular Romanesque apse whose perimeter is decorated, on the outside, with engaged columns on flat buttresses and a continuous billeted cordon that goes around the archivolt of the three windows. Inside, these are flanked by small columns with bases and capitals, carrying a circular torus framing the opening. A cordon ornamented with a chequerboard pattern runs at the base of a lattice and plaster vault which replaced the primitive cul-de-four. The nave is of the 15th century.
Nearby in the register
- Domaine de Dilhacdemeureunder 1 mi
- Ancien château ou château de Laroquechâteau2 mi
- Château de Messacchâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.