Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Orien
Meslay-le-Grenet, Eure-et-Loir, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 27 décembre 1913
- Protection dates
- 1913/12/27 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Meslay-le-Grenet
- Département
- Eure-et-Loir
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.36753, 1.38090
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097150
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La nef principale présente des maçonneries paraissant dater du 12e siècle. Le collatéral a dû être ajouté au 16e siècle. C'est à cette période de transformation de l'église primitive que furent exécutées les piles prismatiques à chapiteaux sculptés et que la charpente du vaisseau principal fut refaite. La décoration picturale semble également dater de cette période. Les peintures murales représentent une danse macabre, le dit des Trois morts et des trois Vifs ainsi que la Passion du Christ.
English translation
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History
The main nave presents masonry appearing to date from the 12th century. The aisle must have been added in the 16th century. It was during this period of transformation of the original church that the prismatic piers with sculpted capitals were executed and the roof structure of the main nave was remade. The pictorial decoration also appears to date from this period. The wall paintings represent a danse macabre, the tale of the Three Dead and the Three Living as well as the Passion of Christ.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.