Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Nazaire
Azay-le-Ferron, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AE 100) : inscription par arrêté du 5 juillet 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/07/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de Verdun
- Commune
- Azay-le-Ferron
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.85150, 1.07042
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097269
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 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La nef de cette église fut disposée de façon à recevoir une file de coupoles. Les supports et la sculpture sont plus avancés que dans les autres églises à coupoles, mais le projet ne fut pas suivi. Il a été remplacé par des voûtes gothiques avec ogives à section carrée garnies d'un boudin.
English translation
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History
The nave of this church was arranged to receive a row of domes. The supports and sculpture are more advanced than in the other domed churches, but the project was not followed through. It was replaced by Gothic vaults with ribs of square section adorned with a roll moulding.
Nearby in the register
- Château d'Azay-le-Ferronchâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.