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Basilica of Notre-Dame du Port

Coordinates: 45°46′50.5″N 3°5′22″E / 45.780694°N 3.08944°E / 45.780694; 3.08944
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West door
Chevet and mosaics.

Notre-Dame du Port is a Roman basilica in the Port quarter of Clermont-Ferrand, between place Delille and the cathedral.

History

It was founded by the bishop Saint-Avit in the 6th century and rebuilt in the 11th and 12th centuries after being burned down by the Normans.

Description

Bibliography

  • Guy Collière, Art roman en Basse-Auvergne : les églises majeures : livret détaillé disponible dans certaines des cinq églises majeures d'Auvergne.
  • Bernard Craplet, Auvergne romane, Éditions Zodiaque, rééd. 1992.
  • Fornas, Le symbolisme dans l'art roman, La Taillanderie, 1997.
  • Fornas, Eglises romanes de Basse-Auvergne, id., 1994.
  • Porcher, Bestiaire roman Auvergnat, RHA, t. 41, 1968.
  • Bréhier, La sculpture romane en Haute-Auvergne, R.H.A., t. 23.
  • Mourlevat, La géométrie du Nombre d’Or à Notre-Dame du Port], Bulletin historique et scientifique de l’Auvergne, Juillet-Septembre 1978
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