Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Chambon, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 278) : inscription par arrêté du 2 mars 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/03/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Chambon
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.78672, 2.32496
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096756
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 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La façade du 12e siècle est surmontée d'un clocher moderne. Elle est percée d'une baie plein cintre avec archivoltes ornées. Les chapiteaux des colonnes recevant les piédroits sont ornés de feuillages, de personnages et de monstres. Le choeur est à abside semi circulaire. Chapiteaux sculptés.
English translation
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History
The façade of the 12th century is topped by a modern bell tower. It is pierced by a round arch opening with decorated archivolts. The capitals of the columns receiving the jambs are decorated with foliage, figures and monsters. The choir is a semi-circular apse. Sculpted capitals.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Symphorienéglise2 mi
- Église du prieuré Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Petite Forgeforge3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.