Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Gal
Roffiac, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 19 août 1921
- Protection dates
- 1921/08/19 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Roffiac
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.05203, 3.03969
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093589
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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 du 12e siècle composée d'une nef de deux travées, voûtée en coupole sur trompes, et d'un choeur voûté en cul-de-four. La coupole se trouve à l'emplacement de l'ancien clocher dont il ne reste plus que le tambour, et qui a été remplacé à la fin du 15e siècle par un campanile ajouré de quatre baies. Ce choeur, extérieurement à cinq pans, est, à l'intérieur, garni de cinq niches formant chapelles. L'abside est ornée d'arcatures sur colonnettes, exemple unique sur forme polygonale.
English translation
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History
Church of the 12th century composed of a nave of two bays, vaulted in a dome on squinches, and a choir vaulted in a cul-de-four. The dome is located at the site of the former bell tower of which only the drum remains, and which was replaced at the end of the 15th century by a campanile pierced by four openings. This choir, externally of five sides, is, in the interior, furnished with five niches forming chapels. The apse is decorated with arcading on small columns, a unique example on polygonal form.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Château du Sailhantchâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Cirgueséglise1 mi
- Croix de chemin à l'effigie de Notre-Dame-de-Pitiécroix de chemin1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.