#ennezat

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Photo: ASO/Billy Ceusters

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Auvergne/Auvernia. Ennezat.

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Ennezat - Collégiale Saint-Victor et Sainte-Couronne by Martin M. Miles on Flickr.

Via Flickr: Around 1060 a small monastery was founded here, funded by William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (aka Fièrebrace - The iron arm). The building of the romanesque church started immediately and probably only took less than 10 years. This church is counted rightly to the crown jewels of the romanesque architecture in the Auvergne by Bernard Craplet ("Auverne romane"). What makes it so interesting is, that this is the oldest of the crown jewels, as this structure is about 50 years older than Notre-Dame-du-Port, Orcival and Issoire. But it nevertheless shows already all the specific touch, the romanesque style has in the Auvergne. The Collégiale Saint-Victor et Sainte-Couronne (now parish church) consists out of three architectural parts. The romanesque church with a transept and a crossing tower, a later added narthex added and a gothic part.