Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Aignan
Saint-Aigny, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 11 mai 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/05/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Aigny
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.64578, 1.02590
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097445
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 1768 map "31 Le Blanc, Chateauroux, Montmorillon." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église possède une nef du 13e siècle avec un bas-côté du 15e. L'abside du 13e siècle est entièrement couverte de fresques qui paraissent intactes sous une couche de chaux.
English translation
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History
The church has a 13th-century nave with a 15th-century aisle. The 13th-century apse is entirely covered with frescoes which appear intact beneath a layer of whitewash.
Nearby in the register
- Monument funéraire romain sculpté dans un rochermonument funéraire1 mi
- Église Saint-Génitouréglise2 mi
- Ancien couvent des Augustinscouvent2 mi
- Crypte de Charassonéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.