Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Varennes-sur-Morge, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. ZC 202) : inscription par arrêté du 24 novembre 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/11/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Later work
- 17e siècle, 18e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Varennes-sur-Morge
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.94240, 3.18652
- Mérimée reference
- PA63000064
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesTexas A&M University LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "52 Clermont." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chevet couvert d'une voûte en cul-de-four d'époque romane. Nef et bas-côtés voûtés en berceau brisé d'époque gothique. Reconstruction du clocher au 19e siècle. A l'intérieur, présence de plusieurs campagnes de décors peints : dans le choeur et les chapelles, peintures polychromes médiévales recouvertes d'un décor du 19e siècle ; dans la nef et les bas-côtés, faux appareils des 17e et 18e siècles, recouverts au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
Chevet covered with a Romanesque apse vault. Nave and aisles with broken barrel vaults of Gothic period. Reconstruction of the bell tower in the 19th century. Inside, evidence of several campaigns of painted decoration: in the choir and chapels, medieval polychrome paintings covered with 19th-century decoration; in the nave and aisles, false ashlar of the 17th and 18th centuries, covered in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
- Pont sur la Morge dit Pont Romainpont1 mi
- Château de La Pausechâteau2 mi
- Croix de chemin dite Croix du Buissoncroix de chemin2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.