Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame
Villequiers, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- L'abside (cad. D 623) : inscription par arrêté du 24 février 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/02/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 12e siècle, 16e siècle, 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1559
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Villequiers
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.06778, 2.80612
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096933
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 1707 map "La Province de Berry. La Generalite de Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle construite à la fin du 12e siècle, sous l'invocation de saint Martin, devenue église paroissiale en 1766. Chapelle latérale ajoutée au 16e siècle. A l'extérieur, les corbeaux qui font le pourtour de l'abside ont été remplacés par des pierres unies. La flèche du clocher a été incendiée par la foudre en 1911, rétablie par la suite.
English translation
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History
Chapel built at the end of the 12th century, under the invocation of saint Martin, became a parish church in 1766. Lateral chapel added in the 16th century. Externally, the corbels which form the perimeter of the apse have been replaced by united stones. The spire of the bell tower was set on fire by lightning in 1911, restored afterwards.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.