Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Montrésor, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1541
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montrésor
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.15551, 1.20383
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097877
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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
L'église était la collégiale d'un chapitre fondé en 1521 par Imbert de Bastarnay, seigneur de Montrésor. Eglise de plan en croix, construite en 1541, terminée par une abside polygonale. Les chapelles latérales représentent les bras de la petite croix et sont décorées de caissons carrés dans lesquels sont sculptés des figures en portrait, des armoirires et des ornements divers. Chapiteaux richement sculptés (acanthe, feuilles d'eau, rinceaux, rosaces, volutes, figures humaines et animaux fantastiques).
English translation
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History
The church was the collegiate church of a chapter founded in 1521 by Imbert de Bastarnay, lord of Montrésor. Church of cruciform plan, built in 1541, terminated by a polygonal apse. The lateral chapels represent the arms of the small cross and are decorated with square coffering in which are sculpted figure portraits, arms and various ornaments. Richly sculpted capitals (acanthus, water leaves, scrollwork, rosettes, volutes, human figures and fantastic animals).
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 15e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Hôtel du 16e sièclehôtelunder 1 mi
- Halle aux laineshalleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.