ÉTROUSSAT
Saint-Georges, XIth, XVth, XVIth and XIXth centuries
Nave with three rows with two adjoined aisles, chancel with a straight row and a semi-circle aspe with its apsidioles. Many coloured church-windows representing two great themes : The Redemption and “Fruits” of The Redemption.

Open every day

LA FERTÉ HAUTERIVE

St Pierre XIXth century
Neo-Roman church built with polychromatic bricks. Composed of one nave with four rows, a salient transept, one aspe and two semi-circular apsidioles. Church-tower with four pinnacles.
Open from 9h to 16h.
except week-end and holidays

FLEURIEL

Notre-Dame, XIth-XIIIth centuries
Porch adorned with an entablement supported by “modillons” representing sardonically heads of crows or masks separated by rose windows and animals. St. James’s capital which is close to the entry of the nave, on the south, is the sole to be really historiated.
Open every day from 8h to 19h

FOURILLES
Saint Saturnin, XlXth century
Built in 1880 perpendicularly to the former church, which was built on XIIth century. The entry is on the north and not on the west..
Open every day from 9h to 18h

GANNAT
Sainte Croix, XIIth and XVIIth centuries, listed Historic Building
Romanesque church built in XIIth century, modified century after century. Present main part dated  1st. half part of the XIVth century. Final shape in XVIIth century. To see : Adoration of the Shepherds by Guy François (1630) in the chapel ,so-called, de la Fauconnière, and outside, the capital of the Nativity and the gargoyle Bade Gorge.
Open every day.
Saint Étienne, XIth and XlXth centuries, listed Historic Building

Contact : Tourist Office 04 70 90 17 78
Sainte Procule’s chapel XVIIth and XXth centuries.
Contact : Tourist Office 04 70 90 17 78

JENZAT
Saint Martin, XIth and XVth  centuries, listed Historic Building.
Built during the first Romanesque period. Only remain from this period, the western façade, the nave and the transept. The chancel was rebuilt in XIIth and XIIIth centuries. Wonderful mural paintings (XVth century) representing the Passion of the Christ and Sainte Catherine’s life. Decoration of capitals : musicians, acrobats, jongleurs and the Annunciation.

Open every day from 8am till 6pm

LAFELINE

Saint Martin, XIIth and XIVth centuries
Nave (XIIth century) covered by a semi-circular vault with arches separating the vault, only one side-aisles, pure Auvergnat Romanesque style and one semi-circular aspe.

Height-sides stone steeple (XIVth century) based on a gently slope with four fortified walls. The church is surrounded by the churchyard.
Open every day.

LALIZOLLE
Sainte Marie, XIth XIIIth XVIIIth centuries

Vaulted chancel with a flat chevet adjoined two rectangular apsidioles. Romanesque arch gate framed by simple little pillars. Statue of Sainte Anne, like Romanesque art style of  Virgin in Majesty.
Open every day.
 

Langy

St. Sulpice, XIIth century - Listed

Romanesque Auvergnat church .Three naves and a flat transept. The chevet allows to observe the radiating chapels. Inside a gravestone with the Jacqueline de Morainville’s epitaph (XVIth century),

Contact : Mrs Fritz 04 47 57 10 10

LE THEIL
Saint-Martin, XIIth century, listed
Modified Romanesque style. Nave estimated XIth or XIIth century. Church-tower, in the XIVth, topped by a stone spire with 52 levels. Adjoined chapel (XVIIth century).
Open every day.

LORIGES
Saint Austremoine, XIXth  century

Built in 1858 by the Earl of Besse, replacing the former parish church destroyed in 1789 (parish already quoted in  the XIIth century).
Contact :04.70.45.48.66.

LOUCHY MONTFAND
Saint Pourçain, XIIIth and XVIth centuries.

Transitory building with a Renaissance porch adjoined chapel (XVth century). Three naves with apsidioles composed this church. Vault chancel, without rib. Height-sided  heavy  steeple (XIIIth century ?) surmounting the crossing of the transept..
Contact: 04.70.45.34.70 (Town hall) or 04.70.45.95.75 (Association Saint Roch)

LOUROUX DE BOUBLE

Saint Laurent, XIIth century
Modified building but with an important Romanesque mark. Restorated in 1972. Wall wardrobe and polychromatic decoration XIVth century in the chancel. The southern chapel owns a church-window “L’Etoile du Matin” (Morning star) and the Stations of the Cross, made by Pierre Lafoucrière, artist born in Louroux de Bouble..
Open every day.

MARCENAT
Saint Martin, XVIth century
Neo-Romanesque church. Without steeple but a simple stone postern.

Keys and information : Town hall (tuesday and thursday from 4pm till 5.30pm – Saturday from 10am to 11am).

LE MAYET d'ECOLE

Saint Bathélemy, XIXth century

Contact : Town hall 04 70 90 09 53

NAVES

Saint pourçain XIth and XVIth centuries

The actual church built in XVIth by the Archbishop of Bourges, Lord of Naves since the end of the XIIth century. The porch framed by six archings in semi-circular, are built on three little columns on each side and in the middle of the western façade, it is drilled, bounded with chalky rubble stones.

Open every day.

MAZERIER
Saint  Saturnin, XIth and XIVth  centuries, Listed Historic Building.
Romanesque nave with two rows and a southern side-aisle (XIth century)
Northern side-aisle remade in XIIth century. Mural paintings (XIVth century), representing the Adoration of the Three Kings, listed. Wall decorated with two arches, traces of a former porch XIth century. Church-tower rebuilt, chevet with “modillons” (XIIth century).
Open every day from 8h till 18h

Contact : Madame Armand

04 70 90 00 10

 MONESTIER
Saint Pourçain, Xlth XIIIth and XIVth centuries
Romanesque origin. Completely modified in Gothic period..
Open every day from 8h till 18h

Contact : 04 70 56 67 94

MONÉTAY SUR ALLIER

Saint Fiacre, end of XIXth century

Neo Romanesque monument. Beautiful church with church-windows from work-shops of Guibouret  in Moulins (end of XIXth century beginning XXth century). The beautiful former Romanesque church (XIIth  century), consecrated to Saint Martin, pulled down in 1793 and replaced towards 1850 by a little church without character and in 1893 by the actual church. The statues of  Saint Martin, Saint Fiacre and Sainte Germaine de Pibrac coming from the church built in 1850 are nowadays in the Town hall, where we can see a "Baiser de Paix" (Kiss of Peace) XVIIth century, listed.

Contact : Mrs Blaiweik 04 70 42 07 62

 

Montaigu Le Blin

Sainte Anne, XIIth-XIXth centuries

Former priory parish church of Cluny. Porch, church-tower and Romanesque nave. Chancel modified in XVth century. Bell (1403). Inside two polychrome wooden statues (XVIth and XVIIth centurie).

Open every day

MONTEIGNET SUR L'ANDELOT

Saint Martin, XVth and  XIXth centuries
The chancel and the steeple are the oldest parts of this building with a central nave and side-aisles. Baroque altar XVIIIth in gilded wood.

Contact : Town hall 04 70 90 50 94
 

Montoldre

Saint Eloi XIXth century

Dedicated to St. Eloi, patron of the silversmith and blacksmith, Neo Gothic style. Curiosity : a raised gable overhung by a pinnacle with two bells.

Contact : Mrs Bougain, presbytery 04.70.45.48.12.

Chapelle de Gayette, XVIIIth century

Contact : chaplaincy 04 70 45 09 17

MONTORD
Saint Martin, XVIth century
Little church of the castle become parish church. On the wall of the apse, an escutcheon bearing the arms of the congregation of Saint lazare.
Contact : Mrs Amy 04 70 45 91 47

NADES
Saint Jacques XIIth century
Only two rows of the nave (vault in semi-circular decorated with modillons à masques are Romanesque. On the altar a tabernacle in gilded wood (XVth century). Chancel remade in XVIth century. First row of the nave and the western façade built in 1875. Saint Fiacre is parish patron.
Open every day from 9am till 6pm
Contact: 04.70.90.40.19