Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Paulnay, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 24 février 1910
- Protection dates
- 1910/02/24 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Paulnay
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.85012, 1.14843
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097427
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
Eglise composée d'une nef sans bas-côtés, d'une travée plus étroite formant choeur, et d'un sanctuaire sur plan demi circulaire. A l'extérieur, le sanctuaire présente un plan rectangulaire. La voûte de la nef et un des piédroits conservent des traces de peintures de la fin du 12e siècle. La voûte de la nef présente un Père Eternel entouré du tétramorphe.
English translation
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History
Church composed of a nave without aisles, a narrower bay forming a choir, and a sanctuary on a semi-circular plan. On the exterior, the sanctuary presents a rectangular plan. The vault of the nave and one of the jambs retain traces of paintings from the end of the 12th century. The vault of the nave presents an Eternal Father surrounded by the tetramorphe.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.