Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Saturnin
Souvigny-de-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. E 120) : inscription par arrêté du 21 avril 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/04/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Souvigny-de-Touraine
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.41159, 1.09101
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098119
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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 façade s'ouvre par une porte en plein cintre à deux rouleaux, dont le deuxième retombe sur deux pilastres accostés de colonnettes. La nef aboutit à une travée de choeur sous-jacente au clocher, et voûtée sur une croisée d'ogives de section carrée, retombant sur les chapiteaux de colonnes engagées, décorés de monstres ou de palmettes. L'abside polygonale, refaite au 17e siècle, est couverte d'une fausse voûte de plâtre. Une chapelle ajoutée au 15e siècle s'ouvre dans le mur sud de la nef.
English translation
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History
The façade opens with a round-arch door with two rolls, the second of which rests on two pilasters flanked by small columns. The nave leads to a bay of choir underlying the bell tower, and vaulted on a rib vault of square section, resting on the capitals of engaged columns, decorated with monsters or palmettes. The polygonal apse, remade in the 17th century, is covered with a false plaster vault. A chapel added in the 15th century opens in the south wall of the nave.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.