Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Sauveur
Le Faou, Finistère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. 1999 AE 20) : inscription par arrêté du 3 juin 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/06/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1593, 1613, 1629, 1630
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue de la Grève ; rue du Général-de-Gaulle
- Commune
- Le Faou
- Département
- Finistère
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.29573, -4.18129
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089925
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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'église se compose d'une nef, d'un large transept double, d'un chevet à trois pans et pignons. Au sud, un grand porche porte les dates de 1593 et 1613. Le clocher, ajouré et allongé, est amorti par un dôme à lanternon et porte les dates de 1629, 1630, 1634 et 1640.
English translation
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History
The church comprises a nave, a wide double transept, a chevet with three sides and gables. To the south, a great porch bears the dates 1593 and 1613. The bell tower, perforated and elongated, is finished by a dome with lantern and bears the dates 1629, 1630, 1634 and 1640.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 16e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.