Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Saturnin
Vorly, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 128) : inscription par arrêté du 26 janvier 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/01/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Vorly
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.94513, 2.46420
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096935
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 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise en grande partie refaite. Porche ancien en plein cintre, formé de quatre rangs de claveaux reposant sur deux piédroits et deux colonnes surmontées de chapiteaux dont l'un s'orne d'oiseaux affrontés dont les becs sont liés par une corde. Au-dessus du porche règne une corniche.
English translation
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History
Church in large part remade. Ancient porch in round arch, formed of four ranks of voussoirs resting on two pedestals and two columns surmounted by capitals one of which is decorated with birds facing each other whose beaks are joined by a rope. Above the porch runs a cornice.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.