Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église paroissiale Saint-Urbain
Courçay, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. C 1106) : inscription par arrêté du 4 mai 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/05/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Courçay
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.25002, 0.87661
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097713
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
La nef dont les murs remonteraient dans leur ensemble au 11e siècle, a été couverte au 16e siècle par une voûte lambrissée à entraits et poinçons apparents. Toutes les fenêtres ont été agrandies au 18e siècle. La partie basse du clocher remonte au 12e siècle, la flèche au 15e.
English translation
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History
The nave, whose walls date in their entirety from the 11th century, was covered in the 16th century by a barrel vault with exposed tie-beams and struts. All the windows were enlarged in the 18th century. The lower part of the bell tower dates from the 12th century, the spire from the 15th.
Nearby in the register
- Lanterne des Mortslanterne des morts2 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-Fougerayéglise2 mi
- église Saint-Étienneéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.