Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Germain
Benais, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Eglise, à l'exclusion de l'adjonction du début du 20e siècle (cad. E 748) : classement par arrêté du 20 décembre 1991
- Protection dates
- 1991/12/20 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Benais
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.29642, 0.21493
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097583
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Dvkedome of Turone. Touraine. Tvronensis Ducatus" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église n'a conservé de ses dispositions primitives du 12e siècle que la dernière travée de la nef, le choeur et sa chapelle sud, ainsi que le clocher. Une chapelle nord a été ajoutée au 15e siècle. La chapelle seigneuriale (sud) est voûtée dans le style angevin. L'édifice a été remanié ou agrandi aux 14e, 15e et début du 16e siècles. Chapiteaux sculptés allant du 14e au 16e siècle. Une partie de la nef a été reconstruite en 1921-1923.
English translation
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History
The church has retained of its original 12th-century arrangements only the last bay of the nave, the choir and its south chapel, as well as the bell tower. A north chapel was added in the 15th century. The seigneurial chapel (south) is vaulted in the Angevin style. The building was altered or enlarged in the 14th, 15th and early 16th centuries. Sculptured capitals ranging from the 14th to the 16th century. Part of the nave was rebuilt in 1921-1923.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Manoir de la Plâteriemanoir1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise1 mi
- Hôtel du 16e sièclehôtel1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.