Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne église
Sainte-Cécile, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (ancienne) (cad. A 676) : inscription par arrêté du 7 mars 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/03/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sainte-Cécile
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.18740, 1.66936
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097448
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1768 map "30 Loches." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Les vestiges les plus anciens remontent à l'époque romane (nef). L'ensemble a été remanié à plusieurs reprises. Au 15e siècle, ajout d'un nouveau choeur plus étroit. L'église a dû être désaffectée suite à l'incendie de 1876 qui a détruit la nef. Son adaptation à un usage agricole a entraîné de nouvelles transformations. Le mur nord de la nef a été reconstruit à l'intérieur du plan primitif, le pignon occidental a été amputé d'autant, ce qui explique le décentrement actuel du portail roman encore en place. Le choeur a conservé à peu près toutes ses dispositions d'origine.
English translation
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History
The oldest remains date back to the Romanesque period (nave). The whole has been remodelled several times. In the 15th century, addition of a new, narrower choir. The church must have been disused following the fire of 1876 which destroyed the nave. Its adaptation to agricultural use resulted in further alterations. The north wall of the nave was rebuilt within the original plan, the west gable was reduced accordingly, which explains the present off-centre position of the Romanesque portal still in place. The choir retained approximately all its original arrangements.