Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Sainte-Agathe
Sainte-Marie, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. C 511) : inscription par arrêté du 24 mai 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/05/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Later work
- 20e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Cocteau Jean (maître de l'oeuvre)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Marie
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.87731, 2.88516
- Mérimée reference
- PA15000002
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Architecture romane caractéristique du Cantal, rehaussée par la présence de vitraux dessinés par Jean Cocteau. Choeur roman agrandi à la période gothique (nef) , décoré au 20e siècle (vitraux datés 1912 et signés Bessac de Grenoble et un vitrail dessiné par Cocteau).
English translation
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History
Romanesque architecture characteristic of Cantal, enhanced by the presence of stained-glass windows drawn by Jean Cocteau. Romanesque choir enlarged in the Gothic period (nave), decorated in the 20th century (stained-glass windows dated 1912 and signed Bessac of Grenoble and a stained-glass window drawn by Cocteau).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.