Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame
Bruyères-et-Montbérault, Aisne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 1er février 1922
- Protection dates
- 1922/02/01 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Later work
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bruyères-et-Montbérault
- Département
- Aisne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.52458, 3.66397
- Mérimée reference
- PA00115559
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1758 map "43 Laon, Noyon." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'un des plus beaux chevets romans du nord de la France. La majeure partie de l'édifice date du 12e siècle : la nef, les collatéraux, le choeur, le transept est, le chevet comprenant une abside centrale et deux absidioles voûtées en cul-de-four richement décorées extérieurement. Au 13e siècle : construction du transept ouest. Au 15e siècle : des modifications furent apportées à certaines voûtes et ouvertures.
English translation
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History
One of the finest Romanesque chevets in northern France. The majority of the building dates from the 12th century: the nave, the aisles, the choir, the east transept, the chevet comprising a central apse and two apsidioles vaulted in apse form richly decorated externally. In the 13th century: construction of the west transept. In the 15th century: modifications were made to certain vaults and openings.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Vendangeoirs dits Martigny et de l’abbé Vitumaison2 mi
- Vendangeoir dit La Grand maisonmaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.