Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Aignan
Brinay, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise y compris les peintures murales (cad. B 163) : classement par arrêté du 20 juillet 1972
- Protection dates
- 1972/07/20 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Brinay
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.17813, 2.12988
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096744
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1761 map "10 Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petite église de plan rectangulaire, avec un choeur plus étroit que la nef. Un clocher carré, terminé par une flèche aigüe, surmonte la façade occidentale, sa base se trouvant à l'intérieur de la nef. En avant de la façade a été élevé un porche en maçonnerie, couvert en appentis. A l'intérieur, le choeur et la nef sont séparés par un mur percé d'une arcade cintrée à intrados plat. L'édifice est recouvert de voûtes de bois portées par une ferme. Le choeur est orné de peintures murales romanes (12e siècle) illustrant la vie du Christ : Massacre des Innocents, Annonciation, Nativité, Annonce aux bergers, Rois mages, Présentation au temple, Avertissement de l'ange et fuite en Egypte, Baptême du Christ, Chute des idôles, Tentation au désert, Noces de Cana. L'arcade s'orne des travaux des mois représentés dans douze cartouches.
English translation
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History
Small church of rectangular plan, with a choir narrower than the nave. A square bell tower, terminated by a sharp spire, rises above the western façade, its base being located inside the nave. In front of the façade a porch in masonry has been raised, covered with a lean-to roof. Inside, the choir and nave are separated by a wall pierced with a round arch with flat intrados. The building is covered with wooden vaults borne by a truss. The choir is decorated with Romanesque mural paintings (12th century) illustrating the life of Christ: Massacre of the Innocents, Annunciation, Nativity, Announcement to the Shepherds, Magi, Presentation at the Temple, Warning of the Angel and Flight into Egypt, Baptism of Christ, Fall of the Idols, Temptation in the Desert, Wedding at Cana. The arch is decorated with the works of the months represented in twelve cartouches.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.