Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Symphorien
Genouilly, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 809) : inscription par arrêté du 26 janvier 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/01/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1536
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Genouilly
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.19154, 1.88453
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096803
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 1761 map "10 Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La nef et choeur datent du dernier quart du 12e siècle. La tour-clocher est du 13e siècle et son rez-de-chaussée forme porche. Les chapelles flanquant le choeur ont été construites au 16e siècle. Enfin, les vitraux commandés pour Claude Ier de La Châtre et Anne Robertet, sa femme, sont datés de 1536.
English translation
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History
The nave and choir date from the last quarter of the 12th century. The bell tower is from the 13th century and its ground floor forms a porch. The chapels flanking the choir were built in the 16th century. Finally, the stained-glass windows commissioned for Claude Ier de La Châtre and Anne Robertet, his wife, are dated 1536.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.