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Ruines de l'église priorale Notre-Dame

Tavant, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Eglise priorale (ruines) : inscription par arrêté du 22 mai 1948
Protection dates
1948/05/22 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle, 15e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Tavant
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.12655, 0.39043
Mérimée reference
PA00098124

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David 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).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Prieuré fondé vers 987 par Thibault, seigneur de l'Ile Bouchard, et donné par lui à l'abbaye de Marmoutier. A la fin du 11e siècle, il fut incendié, puis relevé. Abandonnée à la ruine après la Révolution, l'église était composée d'une nef avec deux collatéraux et probablement d'un choeur terminé par une abside semi circulaire. Un clocher fut reconstruit au 15e siècle sur le flanc sud du choeur. De cet ensemble subsistent les trois travées du collatéral sud, avec les arrachements de leurs voûtes et les trois arcades en plein cintre qui les reliaient à la nef.

English translation

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Priory founded around 987 by Thibault, lord of the Ile Bouchard, and given by him to the abbey of Marmoutier. At the end of the 11th century, it was burned, then rebuilt. Abandoned to ruin after the Revolution, the church was composed of a nave with two aisles and probably a choir ended by a semi-circular apse. A bell tower was rebuilt in the 15th century on the south side of the choir. From this ensemble remain the three bays of the south aisle, with the springing of their vaults and the three round-arched arcades which connected them to the nave.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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