Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Saint-Vert, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AV 208) : inscription par arrêté du 28 octobre 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/10/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 19e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Borie (peintre-verrier)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Vert
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.37106, 3.53174
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125287
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1769 map "53 Brioude, Issoire." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise prieurale d'origine romane, dépendant de la Chaise-Dieu, conservant des éléments romans et gothiques. Elle a été agrandie et en partie reconstruite au 15e siècle. £De l'époque romane, l'édifice conserve la nef. Le choeur et la chapelle nord ont été reconstruits au 15e siècle. Chevet semi-circulaire. Une tourelle demi hors-oeuvre, située sur la façade sud près du chevet, sert de tour d'escalier au clocher. A l'intérieur, les vitraux de la nef sont dus à Borie.
English translation
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History
Priory church of Romanesque origin, dependent on the Chaise-Dieu, preserving Romanesque and Gothic elements. It was enlarged and partly rebuilt in the 15th century. From the Romanesque period, the building preserves the nave. The choir and north chapel were rebuilt in the 15th century. Semi-circular chevet. A semi-projecting turret, situated on the south façade near the chevet, serves as a bell tower staircase. Inside, the stained glass windows of the nave are by Borie.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionéglise2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionéglise3 mi
- Château fort de Chassignolleschâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.