Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul
Gourin, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul (cad. AT 66) : inscription par arrêté du 24 avril 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/04/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de l'Eglise
- Commune
- Gourin
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.13934, -3.60828
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091208
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Eglise à trois nefs avec chevet polygonal. Les fenêtres latérales sont décorées de meneaux et surmontées de pignons aigus. Le clocher est à jour, traité dans le style Renaissance bretonne avec balcons et dômes superposés.
English translation
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History
Church with three naves with polygonal chevet. The lateral windows are decorated with mullions and surmounted by acute gables. The bell tower is open, treated in the Breton Renaissance style with balconies and superimposed domes.
Nearby in the register
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- Chapelle Saint-Nicolaschapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.