Sacred places

11 juin 2007

The Saint-Pierre's church in Châteloy

This church of XIIème century, built on a headland dominating Aumance, is equipped with broad buttresses. The capitals are decorated foliages, birds or scales. The murals of the apse date from XIIIème century and were the repair object in XVème. The church...

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11 juin 2007

The Holy church Radegonde in Cognate-Lyonne

The church Sainte Radegonde of Cognate-Lyonne was built in XIIème century. It preserved of them its octagonal bell-tower, its high pinions auvergnats in front of the transept and its trifoliate bedside. It is the only vestige of the village, which was...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Barthelemy's church and Holy Genes in Chapeau

It is a small Romance building of XIIème century to single nave without low sides. The gate with modern tympanum opens in a fore-part of masonry surmounted of a glacis and surrounded by two curves falling down on posts in offence. The whole of the site...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Maurice's church in Vicq

Vicq derives from “vicus” indicating a Gallo-Roman center of local government. The parish of Vicq belonged formerly to the diocese of Clermont. The priory was, at the origin, the property of the Benedictines of Menat, then of the abbey Saint-Light of...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Saturnin's church in Rocles

At the end of IIIème century, according to M.Bougerolle teacher in Rocles, Saint-Saturnin (or Saint-Sornin) introduced the Christian religion into this area. The common neighbor bears besides her name (Saint-Sornin) and the church of Rocles is devoted...

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11 juin 2007

The Notre-Dame's Church in Huriel

Old church prieurale and parochial formerly depending on the abbey of Déols, close to Chateauroux, Notre-Dame d' Huriel is a splendid Romance building, dating from the beginning of XIIème century.In addition to very marked characters, the Notre-Dame church...

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11 juin 2007

The church Saint Nicolas's Day in Murat

Murat the rich person has been a stronghold considered for more than thousand years. Bordered by two rivers, Aumance and Murat, this historical borough proudly shows the vestiges of its castle of XIème century, old Roman strengthened station, then field...

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11 juin 2007

Roussas

Nested around a escarpé rock piton, Roussas carries the traces of a past which goes up with antiquity. Old defensive village, perched on its rock piton, it remains the ruins of a castle of the XII ème century and some religious buildings. To go up there,...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint Raphaël's church in Solérieux

Solérieux is only one very small village made sleepy with the sun, posed in a plain, which gathers some beautiful houses, of the barns in ruin and some farms still in life. Isolated and far from the large axes, agricultural and without claim, one would...

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11 juin 2007

The old monastery of Saint-Pierre and the church Saint-Blaise

This old church, originally under the term of Our-Lady-of-churches, was the seat of a priory depend on the abbey of Cluny and was ruined as of the end of the XIV ème century. This site, désservi by an old way, of Pontaujard with Nyons, was occupied as...

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