Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité
Villedieu, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 14e siècle
- Dates
- 1363
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Villedieu
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.00082, 3.06392
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093719
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 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise bâtie en 1363 par Pierre d'Estaing qui y fonde un chapître de six chanoines. Au centre de la nef, présence d'un puits de quatre mètres de profondeur. Les pélerins buvaient et emportaient de cette eau par dévotion.
English translation
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History
Church built in 1363 by Pierre d'Estaing who founds there a chapter of six canons. In the centre of the nave, presence of a well four metres deep. The pilgrims drank from and carried away this water as an act of devotion.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Menhir christianisé de La Croix-Grossemenhir2 mi
- Château des Terneschâteau2 mi
- Grand Séminaire, puis centre d'accueilséminaire3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.