Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Saint-Pierre-les-Bois, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. C 662) : inscription par arrêté du 24 février 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/02/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 12e siècle, 16e siècle, 1er quart 20e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Pierre-les-Bois
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.66461, 2.27861
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096892
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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
Nef unique très large. Choeur s'ouvrant sous un arc triomphal brisé, surmonté de deux petites fenêtres plein cintre. La nef n'a jamais été voûtée ; elle est recouverte d'un berceau de bois refait au 16e siècle. L'abside en hémicycle est couverte d'un cul de four et séparée du choeur par un doubleau monté sur deux colonnes engagées aux chapiteaux sculptés représentant des personnages et des monstres. A l'extérieur, le portail occidental, légèrement brisé, à double rouleau, est décoré de sculptures. Le tympan a été orné d'une statuette de saint Pierre devant remonter au 14e siècle.
English translation
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History
Single very wide nave. Choir opening under a pointed arch triumphal arch, surmounted by two small round arch windows. The nave has never been vaulted; it is covered with a wooden barrel vault remade in the 16th century. The hemicycle apse is covered with a cul-de-four and separated from the choir by a double arch mounted on two engaged columns with sculpted capitals representing figures and monsters. On the exterior, the western portal, slightly pointed, with double roll moulding, is decorated with sculptures. The tympanum was ornamented with a statuette of Saint Peter dating back to the 14th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.