Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Bossay-sur-Claise, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 8 juillet 1911
- Protection dates
- 1911/07/08 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bossay-sur-Claise
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.83218, 0.96236
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097591
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Eglise du 12e siècle dont la nef est voûtée en bois. Transept et choeur sont voûtés en berceau. Une coupole circulaire sur trompes existe sous le clocher.
English translation
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History
12th-century church whose nave is vaulted in timber. The transept and choir are barrel vaulted. A circular dome on squinches exists beneath the bell tower.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Bossaychâteauunder 1 mi
- Hôtel de la Rallièrehôtel2 mi
- Église abbatiale bénédictine Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
- Maisonsmaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.