Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Paul
Saint-Paul-de-Salers, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. AE 100) : inscription par arrêté du 19 mai 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/05/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, Fin du Moyen Age, 3e quart 19e siècle
- Later work
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1851
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Paul-de-Salers
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.14013, 2.51689
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093652
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Le choeur et le chevet sont romans (fin du 12e siècle). La nef est gothique (14e et 15e siècle) , voûtée en berceau continu. Deux chapelles latérales (15e-16e siècle) sont voûtées d'ogives avec clés armoriées. Au-dessus du portail gothique s'élève un clocher-porche neo-classique de 1851. Décors intérieurs (peintures murales ; boiseries, stalles...).
English translation
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History
The choir and chevet are Romanesque (late 12th century). The nave is Gothic (14th and 15th century), vaulted with a continuous barrel vault. Two side chapels (15th-16th century) are vaulted with ribs with armorial keys. Above the Gothic portal rises a neo-classical porch tower of 1851. Interior decoration (mural paintings; woodwork, stalls...).
Nearby in the register
- Hospice de Salers ou Fondation Lizet ou maison des Missionnaireshospiceunder 1 mi
- Monument aux mortsmonument aux morts1 mi
- Église Saint-Mathieuéglise1 mi
- Maison de Barguesmaison1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.