Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Sauveur
Sansac-de-Marmiesse, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 1er juin 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/06/01 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sansac-de-Marmiesse
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.88251, 2.34830
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093687
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise composée d'une nef à trois travées voûtées d'arêtes. Choeur à trois pans séparés à l'extérieur par quatre contreforts, et éclairé par trois fenêtres gothiques. Clocher percé de quatre baies. Cet édifice représente l'un des meilleurs exemples d'église rurale gothique de Haute Auvergne.
English translation
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History
Church composed of a nave of three bays with groined vaults. Choir with three sections separated externally by four buttresses, and lit by three Gothic windows. Bell tower pierced by four openings. This building represents one of the finest examples of a rural Gothic church in Haute Auvergne.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Veyrièreschâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.