Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne église Notre-Dame
Rigny-Ussé, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- L'ancienne église : classement par arrêté du 13 mars 1930
- Protection dates
- 1930/03/13 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Rigny-Ussé
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.24798, 0.31622
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098035
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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
Edifice du 12e siècle, composé d'une nef de trois travées, la première rectangulaire, les deux autres carrées, d'un transept et d'un choeur dont la première travée est primitive et celle du chevet remonte au 14e siècle, mur plat remplaçant l'abside primitive circulaire. La croisée du transept conserve la partie inférieure d'une tour. Au centre du transept, un petit escalier accède à une fontaine surmontée d'un édicule. La façade ouest s'ouvre par un portail en tiers point à deux archivoltes sur colonnes et chapiteaux qui paraissent être un remaniement.
English translation
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History
Building of the 12th century, composed of a nave of three bays, the first rectangular, the two others square, of a transept and a choir of which the first bay is original and that of the chevet dates from the 14th century, flat wall replacing the original circular apse. The crossing of the transept retains the lower part of a tower. In the centre of the transept, a small staircase leads to a fountain surmounted by a small building. The west façade opens with a pointed arch portal with two archivolts on columns and capitals which appear to be a reworking.
Nearby in the register
- Château d'Usséchâteau1 mi
- Vestiges de l'abbaye de Turpenayabbaye2 mi
- Château de Rochecottechâteau3 mi
- Manoir de la Cour-Neuvemanoir3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.