Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église abbatiale Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul
Beaulieu-lès-Loches, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise abbatiale : classement par liste de 1862
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1010
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place du Maréchal-Leclerc
- Commune
- Beaulieu-lès-Loches
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.12860, 1.01253
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097561
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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
La construction de l'église remonte au début du 16e siècle. Elle fut bâtie sur les ruines d'une ancienne abbaye fondée vers 1010 par Foulques Néra, comte d'Anjou, qui y fut enterré en 1040. Clocher roman.
English translation
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History
The construction of the church dates from the beginning of the 16th century. It was built on the ruins of an ancient abbey founded around 1010 by Foulques Néra, count of Anjou, who was buried there in 1040. Romanesque bell tower.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne église Saint-Laurentégliseunder 1 mi
- Ancienne abbaye de la Trinitécouventunder 1 mi
- Maison dite du Pilori ou de Justicemaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison dite du Prieurprieuréunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.