Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Chenonceaux, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. B 863) : inscription par arrêté du 6 mars 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/03/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Chenonceaux
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.33110, 1.06725
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097655
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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 romane, probablement du 12e siècle, dont la nef a été reconstruite en 1515. La façade est percée d'une porte en anse de panier, accostée de deux pilastres dont les chapiteaux soutiennent un linteau aux écoinçons décorés de feuilles de chardon. Au-dessus, trois niches Renaissance à coquille sont creusées entre des pilastres cannelés. L'abside romane, voûtée en cul de four, était éclairée par trois fenêtres en plein cintre. La nef est couverte en charpente avec lambris. Un petit clohcer en charpente domine la nef.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church, probably of the 12th century, of which the nave was rebuilt in 1515. The facade is pierced with a basket-handle arch door, flanked by two pilasters whose capitals support a lintel with spandrels decorated with thistle leaves. Above, three Renaissance shell niches are cut between fluted pilasters. The Romanesque apse, vaulted with a quarter vault, was lit by three round-arch windows. The nave is covered with roof structure and timber panelling. A small timber bell tower dominates the nave.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 16e siècle, dite des Pagesmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison de garde-barrièremaisonunder 1 mi
- Domaine de Chenonceauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Domaine de Chenonceaux (également sur communes de Chenonceaux et Francueil)parcunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.