Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église collégiale Saint-Pierre
Venesmes, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. D 31) : inscription par arrêté du 26 janvier 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/01/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1859
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Venesmes
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.83964, 2.31342
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096918
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Eglise puis collégiale à partir de 1265. L'édifice présente un plan en croix avec nef, transept, absidioles voûtées en cul de four sur les croisillons, abside demi-circulaire et clocher-porche. Le choeur du 12e siècle a été repris au 13e. Il est voûté à six branches d'ogives sur colonnettes avec chapiteaux à crochets. Le carré du transept présente des chapiteaux romans avec masques, feuillages et personnages.
English translation
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History
Church and then collegiate church from 1265 onwards. The building presents a cross-shaped plan with nave, transept, apsidioles vaulted in cul-de-four on the transept arms, a semi-circular apse and porch tower. The choir from the 12th century was reworked in the 13th. It is vaulted with six ribs of ogives on small columns with crocket capitals. The square of the transept presents Romanesque capitals with masks, foliage and figures.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien château d'Aigues-Morteschâteau1 mi
- Basilique Notre-Dame-des-Enfantsbasilique1 mi
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Symphorienéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.