Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Symphorien
Saint-Symphorien, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 100) : inscription par arrêté du 26 janvier 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/01/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Symphorien
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.81184, 2.31193
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096898
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 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Plan à nef unique, sans transept, terminé par un chevet demi-circulaire. Clocher porche à l'ouest. Le chevet date du 12e siècle. Berceau de bois du 16e siècle. La nef est voûtée à plâtre mais conserve des arrachements d'ogives. Le clocher porche ouvre sur la nef par une porte ornée de globes surmontés d'archivoltes plein cintre sur chapiteaux à crochets. La partie haute du clocher s'ouvre par des fenêtres géminées.
English translation
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History
Plan with single nave, without transept, terminated by a semi-circular chevet. Porch tower to the west. The chevet dates from the 12th century. Timber barrel vault of the 16th century. The nave is vaulted in plaster but retains traces of rib vaults. The porch tower opens onto the nave through a door decorated with globes surmounted by round arch archivolts on crocket capitals. The upper part of the bell tower opens through geminate windows.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien château d'Aigues-Morteschâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
- Maison de Varennesmaison2 mi
- Église collégiale Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.