Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Vabres
Alleyras, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité, y compris son cimetière avec sa clôture (cad. E 569, 621) : inscription par arrêté du 19 mai 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/05/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église, cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle (?), 12e siècle (?)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Alleyras
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.90391, 3.67216
- Mérimée reference
- PA43000033
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 1780 map "54 Saint-Flour." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La chapelle castrale, construite au 11e ou 12e siècle, était construite près d'une voie du chemin de Compostelle. L'édifice reste le seul témoignage du château, rasé. Pillée au cours de la Révolution puis transformée en bergerie. Reconstruction de la nef en style néo-gothique. La chapelle conserve son choeur roman à voûte en cul-de-four en tuf, et son portail à triple voussures et claveaux alternés.
English translation
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History
The castle chapel, constructed in the 11th or 12th century, was built near a route of the Way of Saint James. The building remains the sole testimony of the castle, which was razed. Pillaged during the Revolution and then converted into a sheepfold. Reconstruction of the nave in neo-Gothic style. The chapel retains its Romanesque choir with barrel vault in tufa, and its portal with triple voussures and alternating voussoirs.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de la Beaumechâteau2 mi
- Château du Fortchâteau2 mi
- Château d'Agrainchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.