Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Symphorien
Anché, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. 1999 ZA 228) : inscription par arrêté du 28 mai 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/05/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Anché
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.13846, 0.30933
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097527
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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
Nef et choeur forment un plan rectangulaire, dans la suite l'un de l'autre. Une petite chapelle est placée sur la gauche de la dernière travée du fond de l'église. A droite se trouve le clocher du 15e siècle, avec sa flèche du 16e, entièrement construit en pierre de taille. L'édifice a son sol actuel surélevé au-dessus du sol primitif. La porte d'entrée et les deux premières travées datent du 13e siècle. Les deux dernières travées sont du 15e siècle.
English translation
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History
Nave and choir form a rectangular plan, one following the other. A small chapel is placed on the left of the last bay at the far end of the church. On the right is found the bell tower of the 15th century, with its spire of the 16th century, entirely built in dressed stone. The edifice has its present floor raised above the primitive floor. The entrance door and the first two bays date from the 13th century. The last two bays are of the 15th century.
Nearby in the register
- Château des Brétignolleschâteauunder 1 mi
- Manoir du Bois de Veudemanoirunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise1 mi
- Prieuré des Roches-Saint-Paulprieuré1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.