Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Virargues, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (cad. C 250) : inscription par arrêté du 15 juillet 1985
- Protection dates
- 1985/07/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Virargues
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.12416, 2.91149
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093720
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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
Petit sanctuaire rural comprenant une nef de deux travées, voûtée en berceau, et un choeur voûté d'ogives. L'édifice appartient, pour l'essentiel, à l'époque romane et a subi plusieurs modifications : les chapelles latérales sont du 15e siècle ; les voûtes du choeur du 16e ; le porche est du 17e. Le clocher-peigne à quatre ouvertures date probablement de l'époque gothique. Frappé par la foudre en 1903, il a été restauré à l'identique. Le porche sud est un ajout de date récente.
English translation
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History
Small rural sanctuary comprising a nave of two bays, barrel vaulted, and a choir with rib vault. The building belongs, in essence, to the Romanesque period and has undergone several modifications: the lateral chapels are from the 15th century; the vaults of the choir from the 16th; the porch is from the 17th. The porch tower with four openings probably dates from the Gothic period. Struck by lightning in 1903, it was restored identically. The south porch is an addition of recent date.
Nearby in the register
- Château du Jarroussetchâteau1 mi
- Maison de Chaylusmaison1 mi
- Ferme de la Grangeferme2 mi
- Maison consulairemaison consulaire2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.