Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Gouesnou
Gouesnou, Finistère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise, arc de triomphe et fontaine (cad. AD 120) : classement par arrêté du 9 mai 1914
- Protection dates
- 1914/05/09 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1615, 1642
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue de l'Eglise
- Commune
- Gouesnou
- Département
- Finistère
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.45134, -4.46715
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089971
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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 possède un clocher à deux étages de galeries en encorbellement, terminé par une flèche très élancée. L'abside est polygonale. Le porche est daté de 1642. A l'intérieur, la date de 1615 est indiquée sur les sablières du choeur. Les poutres et sablières de la nef sont sculptées.
English translation
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History
The church possesses a bell tower with two storeys of corbelled galleries, terminated by a very slender spire. The apse is polygonal. The porch is dated 1642. Inside, the date of 1615 is indicated on the sablières of the choir. The beams and sablières of the nave are sculpted.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.