Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de la Sainte-Trinité
La Trinitat, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 13 mai 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/05/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Trinitat
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.74775, 2.94063
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093704
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 1780 map "54 Saint-Flour." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise du 12e siècle, remaniée au 15e. Une nef voûtée en berceau est flanquée par deux petites chapelles également voûtée. Elle se termine par un choeur voûté sur nervures du 15e siècle. L'entrée se fait sur le côté sud, par un porche très bas également voûté, au-dessus duquel monte, à ciel ouvert, l'escalier d'accès à un clocher-peigne garni de trois cloches. Absence de chapiteaux et de sculptures.
English translation
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History
Church of the 12th century, remodelled in the 15th. A nave vaulted in barrel vault is flanked by two small chapels likewise vaulted. It terminates in a choir vaulted with ribs of the 15th century. The entrance is on the south side, through a very low porch likewise vaulted, above which rises, in the open air, the staircase providing access to a porch tower furnished with three bells. Absence of capitals and sculptures.