Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Alleyrat, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AB 147) : inscription par arrêté du 27 août 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/08/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Alleyrat
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.57609, 2.21569
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099649
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église avait titre de prieuré en 1484 et dépendait de Saint-Angel. Elle se compose d'une nef unique romane et se termine à l'est par une abside pentagonale voûtée en cul-de-four. Deux chapelles latérales, voûtées d'ogives et datant du 14e siècle, s'ouvrent sur la nef au nord. L'arc triomphal est supporté par des chapiteaux très frustes, dont l'un est orné de masques. Le plafond cintré de la nef est d'époque moderne. L'abside et la façade sud de la nef ont conservé leur corniche romane sur corbeaux à demi épannelés.
English translation
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History
The church held the title of priory in 1484 and was dependent on Saint-Angel. It consists of a single Romanesque nave and terminates to the east with a pentagonal apse vaulted in a half-dome. Two lateral chapels, vaulted with ogives and dating from the 14th century, open onto the nave to the north. The triumphal arch is supported by very rough capitals, one of which is decorated with masks. The barrel-vaulted ceiling of the nave is of modern date. The apse and the south facade of the nave have retained their Romanesque cornice on half-finished corbels.