Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Sainte-Croix et Saint-Pierre
Marchastel, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement, inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Choeur roman (cad. AB 16) : inscription par arrêté du 21 août 1992 ; L'église Sainte-Croix et Saint-Pierre, en totalité, située sur la parcelle n°16, figurant au cadastre section AB : inscription par arrêté du 12 octobre 2018.
- Protection dates
- 1992/08/21 : inscrit MH, 2018/10/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 12e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Balmet L. (peintre-verrier)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Marchastel
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.28281, 2.72572
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093752
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 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église se compose d'une abside polygonale à trois pans, précédée d'une nef unique dans laquelle donnent deux chapelles latérales nord et sud. Une tribune découverte occupe la première travée de la nef. Nef et choeur romans (12e siècle). Chapelles latérales et base du clocher-porche du 15e siècle. clocher du 19e. Les vitraux, datés 1914, sont signés de L. Balmet. Chapiteaux sculptés.
English translation
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History
The church is composed of a polygonal apse of three facets, preceded by a single nave into which two lateral chapels, north and south, open. An open tribune occupies the first bay of the nave. Nave and choir Romanesque (12th century). Lateral chapels and base of the porch tower from the 15th century. Bell tower from the 19th. The stained glass windows, dated 1914, are signed by L. Balmet. Sculpted capitals.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.