Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Saint-Etienne-de-Carlat, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A3 342) : inscription par arrêté du 15 janvier 1990
- Protection dates
- 1990/01/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Etienne-de-Carlat
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.90424, 2.57455
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093729
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
L'église appartient à l'architecture religieuse de la Haute Auvergne. Quelques éléments sculptés et les volumes de la construction la rattachent à l'époque romane. D'autres détails lui confèrent une date autour du 13e siècle. La première mention de l'église remonte à 1213. L'intérieur recèle probablement des peintures murales.
English translation
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History
The church belongs to the religious architecture of Upper Auvergne. A few sculptured elements and the volumes of the construction link it to the Romanesque period. Other details confer upon it a date around the 13th century. The first mention of the church goes back to 1213. The interior probably contains murals.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien cimetièrecimetière1 mi
- Église Saint-Avitéglise1 mi
- Château du Douxchâteau2 mi
- Manoir de Lachauxmanoir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.