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Église Saint-Christophe

Ourouer-les-Bourdelins, Cher, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Eglise (cad. C 742) : inscription par arrêté du 24 février 1926
Protection dates
1926/02/24 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle, 16e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Ourouer-les-Bourdelins
Département
Cher
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
46.92539, 2.79088
Mérimée reference
PA00096864

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Edifice comprenant nef, transept avec absidioles et abside demi-circulaire. Le clocher est monté sur la travée qui précède le choeur, voûtée d'une coupole octogonale sur pendentifs. Le bas-côté de droite, édifié au 15e siècle, paraît n'avoir jamais eu ses voûtes achevées. Les murs latéraux portent néanmoins les retombées de ces voûtes préparées et sculptées d'animaux représentant les Evangélistes.

English translation

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Building comprising nave, transept with absidioles and semicircular apse. The bell tower is mounted on the bay preceding the choir, vaulted with an octagonal cupola on pendentives. The right aisle, built in the 15th century, appears never to have had its vaults completed. The lateral walls nevertheless bear the springing points of these vaults prepared and sculpted with animals representing the Evangelists.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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