Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul
Argol, Finistère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise et arc de triomphe du cimetière (cad. AB 33) : classement par arrêté du 12 novembre 1914
- Protection dates
- 1914/11/12 : classé MH
- Type
- église, cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 3e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1575, 1659
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de l'Eglise
- Commune
- Argol
- Département
- Finistère
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.24644, -4.31692
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089823
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 3: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'arc de triomphe à triple arcade, qui donne accès au cimetière, date de 1659. L'église, de 1575, possède un clocher du type des clochers élancés à chambre unique pour les cloches et dont les murs sont couronnés par des pignons entre lesquels prend naissance une flèche ornée de crochets.
English translation
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History
The triumphal arch with triple arcade, which gives access to the cemetery, dates from 1659. The church, from 1575, possesses a bell tower of the type of slender bell towers with single chamber for the bells and whose walls are crowned by gables between which rises a spire ornamented with crockets.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.