Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Melaine
Domalain, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Melaine (cad. AB 175) : inscription par arrêté du 14 octobre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/10/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Domalain
- Département
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.99618, -1.24272
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090550
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1768 map "97 Laval." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise à trois nefs percée, sur sa façade sud, d'une porte du 16e siècle. Les bas-côtés sont de caractère breton, chaque travée étant couverte perpendiculairement à l'axe central et terminée par un pignon. Ces pignons sont ornés de crochets, tous différents, de même pour les pinacles et gargouilles.
English translation
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History
Church with three naves pierced, on its south façade, by a 16th-century door. The aisles are of Breton character, each bay being covered perpendicular to the central axis and terminated by a gable. These gables are ornamented with crockets, all different, as are the pinnacles and gargoyles.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.