Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église du prieuré Saint-Pierre
Bommiers, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AD 59) : classement par arrêté du 16 février 1921
- Protection dates
- 1921/02/16 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de la Mairie
- Commune
- Bommiers
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.79504, 1.98472
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097283
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1707 map "La Province de Berry. La Generalite de Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise en croix latine, au centre de laquelle se trouvait autrefois le clocher. A cet endroit, quatre piliers flanqués de colonnes avec huit chapiteaux historiés, servent de soutien à quatre arcs supportant la voûte sphérique sur pendentifs (12e siècle). Le choeur, la nef et le transept avec ses deux absidioles sont également de l'époque romane. La nef remonte également aux 15e et 18e siècles.
English translation
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History
Church in Latin cross, at the centre of which stood formerly the bell tower. At this location, four pillars flanked by columns with eight historiated capitals, serve to support four arches supporting the spherical vault on pendentives (12th century). The choir, the nave and the transept with its two apsidioles are also of the Romanesque period. The nave also dates from the 15th and 18th centuries.
Nearby in the register
- Vestiges du château de Bourg-le-Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Lanterne des morts dite Croix de Saint-Georgeslanterne des morts3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.