Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Miermaigne, Eure-et-Loir, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 236) : inscription par arrêté du 28 décembre 1978
- Protection dates
- 1978/12/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Miermaigne
- Département
- Eure-et-Loir
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.24682, 0.99101
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097154
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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 partie la plus ancienne de l'édifice, constituée par la nef, peut dater du 12e siècle. Au 16e siècle, l'église est agrandie par la construction du choeur actuel. En 1858, édification dans le choeur d'une voûte en maçonnerie légère sur croisée d'ogives, sous la charpente lambrissée de voliges. La toiture fut remaniée en 1903. Dans l'axe près du pignon ouest, la nef est surmontée d'un clocher à base prismatique quadrangulaire, couronné par une flèche.
English translation
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History
The oldest part of the edifice, constituted by the nave, may date from the 12th century. In the 16th century, the church is enlarged by the construction of the present choir. In 1858, construction in the choir of a light masonry vault on rib vault, beneath the wooden-clad roof structure of thin boards. The roof was altered in 1903. In the axis near the west gable, the nave is surmounted by a bell tower with quadrangular prismatic base, crowned by a spire.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.