Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Saint-Michel-en-Brenne, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. E 42) : inscription par arrêté du 18 octobre 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/10/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Michel-en-Brenne
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.80883, 1.16432
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097462
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid 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
L'histoire de cette église est vraisemblablement liée à celle de l'abbaye voisine de Saint-Cyran. Le pignon ouest s'ouvre par une porte à voussures à chapiteaux ouvragés et bases de la fin du 13e siècle. Une tour carrée surmontée d'un étage soutient un clocher en pyramide qui occupe le centre de la face sud.
English translation
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History
The history of this church is probably linked to that of the neighbouring abbey of Saint-Cyran. The west gable opens with a door with voussoirs with elaborate capitals and bases from the end of the 13th century. A square tower surmounted by a storey supports a bell tower in pyramid form which occupies the centre of the south face.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien châteauchâteau2 mi
- Porteporte2 mi
- Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleineéglise2 mi
- église Saint-Étienneéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.