Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Combret, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise, à l'exception du porche : inscription par arrêté du 6 mai 1939
- Protection dates
- 1939/05/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Dates
- 1393
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Combret
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.84284, 2.67444
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093997
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 15: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le village fut fortifié au Moyen-Age. L'église faisait partie du front Est qui barrait l'isthme isolant le promontoire fortifié. Dans son état primitif, au 12e siècle, elle devait présenter trois nefs avec une abside et sans doute un transept à bras non saillants. L'église fut ruinée sans doute pendant la guerre de Cent ans, et reconstruite en 1393, les trois nefs étant remplacées par une seule avec de grands arcs doubleaux portant la charpente. Le lambris doit est un ajout postérieur à cette époque. De la disposition intérieure primitive ne subsistent que les deux têtes de part et d'autre de l'abside, qui portaient la retombée des deux arcs latéraux portant la voûte de la nef principale. Deux chapelles et un clocher furent ajoutés sur la face nord, vers la fin du 15e siècle. Décoration romane au portail, entouré d'un cordon d'archivolte orné de feuillages et de dents de scie.
English translation
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History
The village was fortified in the Middle Ages. The church formed part of the East front which barred the isthmus isolating the fortified promontory. In its original state, in the 12th century, it must have presented three naves with an apse and no doubt a transept with non-projecting arms. The church was ruined no doubt during the Hundred Years War, and rebuilt in 1393, the three naves being replaced by a single one with large double arches supporting the roof structure. The eastern wooden ceiling is an addition later than this period. Of the original interior layout only the two heads on either side of the apse remain, which carried the springing of the two lateral arches supporting the vault of the main nave. Two chapels and a bell tower were added on the north face, towards the end of the 15th century. Romanesque decoration at the portal, surrounded by a cordon of archivolt decorated with foliage and saw-tooth moulding.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.