Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Sainte-Valérie
Pontcharraud, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Valérie (cad. B 512, 513) : inscription par arrêté du 15 avril 1987
- Protection dates
- 1987/04/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 4e quart 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Pontcharraud
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.86440, 2.27133
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100134
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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
En 1179, les vicomtes d'Aubusson firent don de la terre de Pontcharral au monastère de Blessac. Une chapelle comprenant une nef à trois travées a été construite au 14e siècle. La cure fut une annexe de l'abbaye de Chambon de 1564 à la Révolution. D'importantes restaurations et transformations furent effectuées au 19e siècle (deux chapelles, sacristie, peintures). L'église est constituée d'une nef dont la première travée sert de choeur. Clocher-mur percé de trois arcades en plein cintre abritant les cloches, contrebuté de deux contreforts dont l'un renferme un escalier.
English translation
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History
In 1179, the viscounts of Aubusson made a gift of the land of Pontcharral to the monastery of Blessac. A chapel comprising a nave of three bays was built in the 14th century. The cure was an annex of the abbey of Chambon from 1564 to the Revolution. Important restorations and transformations were carried out in the 19th century (two chapels, sacristy, paintings). The church is constituted of a nave of which the first bay serves as a choir. Gable bell tower pierced by three round-arch arcades sheltering the bells, buttressed by two buttresses of which one contains a staircase.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.