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Église Saint-Romain

Athée-sur-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Eglise (cad. 2001 D1 64) : inscription par arrêté du 22 août 1949
Protection dates
1949/08/22 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle, 17e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Lieu-dit
le Bourg
Commune
Athée-sur-Cher
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.32070, 0.91579
Mérimée reference
PA00097535

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David 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).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

L'église fut bâtie au 12e siècle, et reconstruite presque entièrement vers 1635 par Philippe Sallier, seigneur de Chênaie. De l'édifice du 12e subsistent le mur sud de la nef, une tour carrée couronnée par une flèche à pans légèrement brisés. La nef est couverte en charpente avec lambris. Le collatéral au nord est relié à la nef par trois arcades en tiers point. Des amorces d'ogives prouvent le projet inexécuté de voûter la nef et le bas-côté. La nef aboutit à un choeur de deux travées barlongues, voûtées d'ogives à moulures prismatiques. L'abside a cinq pans.

English translation

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The church was built in the 12th century, and rebuilt almost entirely around 1635 by Philippe Sallier, lord of Chênaie. Of the 12th-century building remain the south wall of the nave, a square tower crowned by a spire with slightly broken sides. The nave is covered with roof structure and panelling. The aisle to the north is connected to the nave by three pointed arches. Springers of ribs prove the unexecuted project to vault the nave and the aisle. The nave ends in a choir of two oblong bays, vaulted with ribs with prismatic mouldings. The apse has five sides.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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