Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Epeigné-sur-Dême, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le pignon Ouest (cad. C 459) : inscription par arrêté du 5 juin 1962
- Protection dates
- 1962/06/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle
- Dates
- 1040
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Epeigné-sur-Dême
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.66848, 0.61373
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097745
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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, construite en 1040, a des murs parementés en petit appareil. A la base du pignon, sous un larmier mouluré d'un damier, court une frise de quinze métopes représentant lions, tigres, éléphants, animaux fantastiques. Le mur goutterot sud est ajouré de trois fenêtres modernes de style flamboyant. La nef est reliée par une arcade en tiers point à un choeur rectangulaire datant du 12e isècle, mais dont la voûte est moderne.
English translation
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History
The nave, built in 1040, has walls faced in small ashlar. At the base of the gable, under a moulded gutter with a chequerboard pattern, runs a frieze of fifteen metopes representing lions, tigers, elephants, fantastical animals. The south roof wall is pierced by three modern windows in flamboyant style. The nave is connected by a pointed arch to a rectangular choir dating from the 12th century, but of which the vault is modern.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.