Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Germain
Bourgueil, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. E 174) : classement par arrêté du 7 mai 1908
- Protection dates
- 1908/05/07 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de l'Eglise
- Commune
- Bourgueil
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.28144, 0.16859
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097595
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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
Le choeur a été reconstruit au 13e siècle dans le style Plantagenêt. C'est un rectangle dont les voûtes reposent sur quatre colonnes monolithes. Les clés de voûte sont ornées de bas-relief et de peinture. L'ancienne nef du 11e siècle a été rebâtie en 1888.
English translation
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History
The choir was rebuilt in the 13th century in the Plantagenet style. It is a rectangle whose vaults rest on four monolithic columns. The vault keys are ornamented with bas-relief and painting. The former 11th-century nave was rebuilt in 1888.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Abbaye bénédictine de Saint-Pierre de Bourgueilabbayeunder 1 mi
- Moulin Bleumoulin1 mi
- Manoir du Port-Guyet (ancien logis de Marie Dupin)manoir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.