Herment

Herment stands in the upland country of the Combraille, west of Clermont. Its collegiate church of Notre-Dame was built between 1145 and the early thirteenth century on land given by Count Robert III of Auvergne. The building joins Romanesque and Gothic forms, with influences from the neighbouring Limousin. A medieval fountain supplied the town from a deep underground reservoir. In 1466 Canon Jean Robert built the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle beside the old hospice; it was restored in 1745.