Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église paroissiale Saint-Paterne
Saint-Paterne-Racan, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 6 mars 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/03/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Paterne-Racan
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.60311, 0.48408
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098096
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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
Un oratoire, consacré par Grégoire de Tours, fut remplacé, au 11e siècle, par un édifice dont des vestiges subsistent dans l'église actuelle. Celle-ci fut reconstruite au 15e siècle. A la suite d'un incendie survenu en 1768, elle fut restaurée en respectant l'architecture du 15e. L'édifice se compose d'une nef suivie d'un choeur carré et accompagnée d'un collatéral méridional. De l'édifice du 11e siècle, subsiste le mur nord de la nef et du choeur, et la moitié inférieure du mur du chevet. La façade occidentale et le clocher sont du 15e siècle. Le rez-de-chaussée du clocher est aménagé en chapelle qui occupe la partie nord de la nef, et est recouverte d'ogives retombant sur des chapiteaux garnis de feuilles et de crochets. A chacune des travées du bas-côté correspond extérieurement un pignon.
English translation
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History
An oratory, consecrated by Gregory of Tours, was replaced in the 11th century by a building of which vestiges remain in the present church. This was rebuilt in the 15th century. Following a fire that occurred in 1768, it was restored while respecting 15th-century architecture. The building comprises a nave followed by a square choir and accompanied by a southern aisle. From the 11th-century building, the north wall of the nave and choir, and the lower half of the chevet wall, remain. The west façade and the bell tower are of the 15th century. The ground floor of the bell tower is fitted out as a chapel which occupies the north part of the nave, and is covered with rib vaults resting on capitals decorated with foliage and crockets. To each of the bays of the aisle corresponds externally a gable.
Nearby in the register
- Château d'Hodebertchâteauunder 1 mi
- Cave habitéehabitat troglodyteunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Christopheéglise1 mi
- Château de la Roche Racanchâteau1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.